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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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. – James Madison

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Trust
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. – James Madison

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And heres the fact: the fact is it doesnt solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, Look, every penny you make next year the governments going to take it from you, it still doesnt solve the debt. – Marco Rubio

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You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government. – Marco Rubio

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan

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This administration in Washington thats in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but its the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area. – Rick Perry

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. – Ernst Mach

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