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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness it

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. – James Madison

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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, its our partner. – George McGovern

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On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it. – Mitt Romney

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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H. L. Mencken

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