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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. – Abraham Lincoln

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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. – Abraham Lincoln

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln

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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. – Robert A. Heinlein

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You cant have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government. – Lawrence Summers

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A corporations primary goal is to make money. Governments primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. – Larry Ellison

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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Natures, not honours law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. – Archilochus

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