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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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Let men say, we be men of good government; being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
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Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ‘taxing-machine;’ to the contented, a ‘machine for securing property.’ Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
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Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
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My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
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My message to Mr. Milosevic and to his government will be very clear,
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