Quote by Thomas Jefferson
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. – Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

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Attitude
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Society
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. – James Madison

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Government

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. – Ronald Reagan

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Government

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case – and most Americans would agree with him on this – then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people? – Tony Campolo

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Government

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. – Barack Obama

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Government

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This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. – Stanford Moore

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I used to travel in tennis shoes I am just not allowed to anymore. Im an old hippie from San Francisco. – Amy Irving

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Travel

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. – Lucretius

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Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. – Carroll Quigley

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War