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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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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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God
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There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others. – John Adams

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Commitment
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Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that governments role is to equalize the results of peoples lives? – Paul Ryan

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. – James Russell Lowell

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Government

All that a good government aims at… is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. – James F. Cooper

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Government

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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. – Francis Bacon

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Truth

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I dont even notice it any more. Its just my reality. – Ethan Hawke

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relationship

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesnt seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. – James Laughlin

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Poetry

A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag

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Family