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Quote by George Will
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it i

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be? – George Will

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I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. – George Will

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Freedom
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George Will
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible lifestyles turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. – George Will

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Food
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If you seek Hamiltons monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamiltons country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. – George Will

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Government
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics — a rational ethics — as a precondition of rebirth. – Ayn Rand

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It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. – Sir John Harvey

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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms. – Hugo Ball

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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. – Bob Dole

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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. – John Ruskin

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People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you. – Orlando Bloom

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