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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. – John Adams

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. – John Adams

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design
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. – John Adams

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Government
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. – John Adams

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power
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work – because if they dont, they wont be around the next time the ballot box is open. – King Abdullah II

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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government. – Tim Scott

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Government

Most Americans arent the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. – Joseph Sobran

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

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Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. – Howard Dean

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Loved. You cant use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. – Ken Kesey

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The Dead was cool, Its a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me. – Matthew McGrory

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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. – Izaak Walton

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