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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. – Steve Allen

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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. – Steve Allen

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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. – Henry David Thoreau

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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. – Thomas Paine

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Governments first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. – Ronald Reagan

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Henry de Bracton

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