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The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. – Andrew Jackson

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Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. – Andrew Jackson

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power
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Andrew Jackson
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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. – Andrew Jackson

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Fear
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The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you cant eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as progress, doesnt spread. – Andy Rooney

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The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people. – Grover Cleveland

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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. – David Hume

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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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. – Charles Caleb Colton

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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. – Anais Nin

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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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