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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? – Mitch McConnell

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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. – Woodrow Wilson

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Common sense tells us that the governments attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. – Sarah Palin

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – Edmund Burke

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The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law. – Gloria Naylor

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[W]e do not have such a clear mirror for our minds as we do for our bodies. – TKV Desikachar

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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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