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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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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. – John Adams

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Freedom
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John Adams
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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams

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Age
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Government
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Government

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Government

The public is upset. If they havent lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they havent lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When somethings wrong, its governments job to fix it, it must be government thats responsible for causing it. – Michael Bloomberg

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Government

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. – James Q. Wilson

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Government

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Changing and actually improving are two quite different skills. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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Change

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. – Robert Morgan

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Home

I think its important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think its great I get to travel the world with my daughter. – Salma Hayek

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Travel

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle. – Maria Mitchell

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alone