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Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington

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Friendship
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. – George Washington

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Presidents Day
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

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Freedom
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As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job. – Lucy Powell

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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now whats going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? – Will Rogers

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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We dont need a national ID card. – Ron Paul

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Making recess appointments when the Senate isnt in recess is neither rational nor moderate. Its a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. – John Podhoretz

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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race. – Marilyn Monroe

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Do not spend your life seeking security and then wonder why you never found happiness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The understanding of art depends finally upon ones willingness to extend ones humanity and ones knowledge of human life. – Ralph Ellison

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