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The happiness of society is the end of government. - John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government. – John Adams

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Because power corrupts, societys demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. – John Adams

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power
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John Adams
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. – John Adams

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Country
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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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As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our societys most vulnerable. – Jim DeMint

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Government

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to mans rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. – Ayn Rand

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I dont believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion. – Stephen Harper

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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. – Abbie Hoffman

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Do not wait the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. – George Herbert

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Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. – Robert Mugabe

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