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This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumpt

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. – Dee Dee Myers

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When the government violates the peoples rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. – Marquis de Lafayette

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The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours. – Mitch Daniels

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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government. – Madeleine Albright

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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. – Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism

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We need, in effect, to make the phantom lock-boxes around the trust fund real. – Alan Greenspan

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Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. – Marcus Garvey

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Not failure, but low aim is sin. – Benjamin E. Mays

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I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love thats gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. – Tim Finn

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