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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

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I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people wont believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons. – William Hague

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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. – Xenophon

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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. – Colin Powell

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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. – Harry S. Truman

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881

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Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and Ive been surprised at how much Ive been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but thats true. – Mindy Kaling

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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. – George Eliot

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The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. – Curt Schilling

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