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Resolv’d to ruin or to rule the state.
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Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
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Ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish.
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Safety of the state is the highest law.
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Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
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Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
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Slavery is in flagrant violation of the institutions of America–direct government–over all the people, by all the people, for all the people.
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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit.]
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So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are ‘our children’; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.’ Winston Churchill
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
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State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.
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States are great engines moving slowly.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.- Noam Chomsky
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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Talk is cheap ‘ except when Congress does it.- Cullen Hightower
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Taxation, like a lot of other things, is based on supply and demand. The government demands, and we supply.
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That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
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