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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. - A

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. – Andrew Johnson

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Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. – Andrew Johnson

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If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. – Tommy Franks

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We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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And heres the fact: the fact is it doesnt solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, Look, every penny you make next year the governments going to take it from you, it still doesnt solve the debt. – Marco Rubio

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. – Jean De La Bruyere

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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. – Maya Angelou

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I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. – Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988

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Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. – Jiddhu Krishnamurti

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