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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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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. – John Adams

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It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society. – William Hague

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You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government cant stop me… Its called senility. – Robert Anton Wilson

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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. – George Washington

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. – Woodrow Wilson

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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. – Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long

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I couldnt help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasnt one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. – Julian Castro

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud. – George Santayana

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Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. – Christopher Paul Rubero

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