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Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurp

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. – William Godwin

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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. – William Godwin

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Future
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. – William Godwin

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Education
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. – Tom Clancy

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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. – Barack Obama

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Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies – an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as investment. – Paul Ryan

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes. – Ted Rall

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In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow – and trust – the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction. – Mary Augusta Ward

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My father left… but I tell my mom – and I told my mom this when I was a kid – I said, You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because youre a strong woman. – J. R. Martinez

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My religion lies in my composition. – John Philip Sousa

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