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Fear is the foundation of most government. - John Adams

Fear is the foundation of most government. – John Adams

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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams

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Education
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

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Government
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If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the governments timetable. Thats what saved my life. – Herman Cain

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Government

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him. – Ron Paul

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Government

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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Government

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. – John C. Calhoun

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Government

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People didnt have the political guts to stand up against an American war. – George McGovern

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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else. – Baltasar Gracian

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