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Quote by George Washington
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to ma

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. – George Washington

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I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. – George Washington

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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. – George Washington

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Lets just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it. – Nancy Pelosi

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We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. – Charles Baudelaire

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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. – Barbara Jordan

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. – Basil Bunting

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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future. – Oliver Stone

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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. – Marian Wright Edelman

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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cant have both. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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