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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. – David Hume

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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. – David Hume

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Nature
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David Hume
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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

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Certainty
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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. – Andrew Jackson

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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. – Franklin Pierce

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Its dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. – Edward Norton

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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. – Sandra Day OConnor

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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. – John Maynard Keynes

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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. – Lydia M. Child

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