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Quote by Walter Bagehot
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. – Walter Bagehot

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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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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. – Barbara Jordan

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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. – Dan Rather

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I dont believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution. – William J. Clinton

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