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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. - J

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. – John Locke

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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. – John Locke

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Freedom
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John Locke
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. – John Locke

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Truth
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John Locke
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke

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alone
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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. – John C. Calhoun

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Government

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing. – Benjamin Carson

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Government

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said hed like to help, but hes pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army. – Conan OBrien

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Government

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

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Government

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I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was Aint Nobodys Business. It got me. I thought, I can do this. I decided just like that. No romantic story. – Jerry Leiber

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Romantic

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. – Niels Bohr

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Jobs & Office

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Nature

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Immortality