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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. – James Madison

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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. – James Madison

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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? – James Madison

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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. – James Madison

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Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesnt work for very long. Its an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image were building for Canada as a strong place to invest. – Stephen Harper

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Remember that government doesnt earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else. – Jesse Ventura

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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. – Bono

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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. – Sandra Day OConnor

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. – W. H. Auden

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I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies. – Jennifer Hudson

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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. – Calvin Coolidge

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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. – Ted Cruz

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