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Quote by George Washington
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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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandmans cares. – George Washington

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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. – George Washington

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Most Americans arent the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. – Joseph Sobran

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. – Abraham Lincoln

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Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. – Ronald Reagan

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