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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble gover

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. – Edmund Burke

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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke

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Justice
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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Pessimism
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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power
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. – Wendell Phillips, Orations, Speeches, Lectures and Letters

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. – John Adams

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I dont make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers

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At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. – William Hague

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. – Henry David Thoreau

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. – George Santayana

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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. – George Pataki

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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never wouldve been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting. – Ethan Embry

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