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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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If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. – John Locke

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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. – John Locke

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Men
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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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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Government

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions. – Stephen Harper

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The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. – James Madison

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen. – Alex Winter

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Compromise, hell! … If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? – Senator Jesse Helms

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