"Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts."
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"An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
"We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it."
"As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences."
"This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country."
"Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again."