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We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Speech on the sub-Treasury, December 26, 1839
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.: Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998), Speech accepting nomination for president, July 16, 1964
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.: William C. Redfield, Address at Case School, Cleveland, Ohio, May 27, 1915
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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.: Charles Evans Hughes, Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 1925
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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
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We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 4, September 11, 1777
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Address at Jacksonville University, December 16, 1971
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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
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While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), First Inaugural Adress, march 4, 1861
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