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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. - Anthon

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. – Anthony Trollope

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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. – Anthony Trollope

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Wisdom
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. – Anthony Trollope

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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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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – Jeremy Bentham

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I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof. – John Jay Hooker

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Women are all female impersonators to some degree. – Susan Brownmiller

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The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. – June Jordan

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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. – Hindu Proverb

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There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. – Pen Densham, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

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