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A government of laws, and not of men. - John Adams

A government of laws, and not of men. – John Adams

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

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Imagination
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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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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. – Thomas Jefferson

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Im tired of hearing it said that democracy doesnt work. Of course it doesnt work. We are supposed to work it. – Alexander Woollcott

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It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. – Rick Perry

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. – Theodore Roosevelt

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