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"Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty."
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Source: Little Rhetoric Riding Hood. www.jewishworldreview.com. August 24, 2008.
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