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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, an

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. – Charles de Secondat

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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We dont need a national ID card. – Ron Paul

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. – John Quincy Adams

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I decided to run for governor because I got mad… I want to make government more directly accountable to the people. – Jesse Ventura

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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. – Evan Davis

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about. – William Glasser

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How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

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