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No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.
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Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
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Henry Commager (1902 - 1998)
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
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Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
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Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
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Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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MacKenzie King
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
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Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
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