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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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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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. – George Bernard Shaw

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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness–a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbors wife. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. – V. Raymond Edman

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I think its unethical to take money for poor quality performance. – Alvin Burger

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The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. – David Bohm

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Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. – Mary Baker Eddy

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