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Quote by John Adams
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. – John Adams

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I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom. – John Adams

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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – 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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Governments never learn. Only people learn. – Milton Friedman

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We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I dont – that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. Its insane and its unsustainable. – Marco Rubio

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Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government. – Rick Perry

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. – Barry Goldwater

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My father was the quintessential husband and dad. – Sidney Poitier

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You do the policy, Ill do the politics. – Dan Quayle

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. – E.M. Forster

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Because of that I dont care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh? – Ruud van Nistelrooy

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