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The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of g

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. – Jon Meacham

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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

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power
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A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play. – Jon Meacham

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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! – Eddie Izzard

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We dont walk. We overeat because weve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the we is all of us. Its not the government. Its all of us doing this together. – Mehmet Oz

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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. – Buenaventura Durruti

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. – Thomas Jefferson

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The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. – Hilaire Belloc

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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. – Stephen Hawking

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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. – Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science, 1995

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