"Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home"
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"I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own."
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"Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections."
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"I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs."
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"Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities."
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"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability."
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"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
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"During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events."
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"[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family."
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"Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise."
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"The less government we have the better."
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"And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance."
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"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual."
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"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
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"We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry."
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"Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!"
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"The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt"
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"The object of government is the welfare of the people."
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