"Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest."
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"My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable."
"I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things."
"Campaigning is different from governing."