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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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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
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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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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
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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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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
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