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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. – John Adams

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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams

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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

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I dont look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. – Kin Hubbard

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Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion. – Stafford Cripps

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Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic — they are pus. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – Jeremy Bentham

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