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- I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Democratic Vistas
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
- The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Remarks to a Joint Session of Congress, August 12, 1974
- Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Annual message to Congress on the State of the Union, January 30, 1961
- There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Congressional Record, April 15, 1942
- We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), Speech on Parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831
- We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), Speech on Parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831
- Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, House of Commons, May 2, 1935
- But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty,chapter 3, 1859
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