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• The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

  John Quincy Adams

  Republican, Manners, Criteria

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• The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

  John Adams

  Essence, Political, Politics

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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• 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

  Years, Political, Liberty

  "An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840". Book by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, 2010.

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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

  Bible, God, Religious

  Letter to an autograph collector from Washington on April 27, 1837, The Historical Magazine, archive.org. July 1860.

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• Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Commitment, Giving

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.109, Verso

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• Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, People, Political

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• The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

  William Ellery Channing

  Happiness, Patriotic, Opportunity

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• The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Kings, World Government, Order

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• It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Goal, Custodians, Would Be

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• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, School, Atheism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Girl, Flower, Rose

  "François Hollande 'will retain Franco-British defence ties' as president" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Knowledge, Authority And Power

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Rights, Historical

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.116, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Weather, Hot Weather, Bad Weather

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Ends, Preservation

  1681 Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

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• And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

  James Madison

  Past, Doubt, Religion

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.89, University of Virginia Press

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• The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

  James Madison

  Rights, Liberty, Protection

  James Madison (1999). “Writings”

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• Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

  James Madison

  Atheism, Liberty, Separation Of Church And State

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.276

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• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Diversity

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  "Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli". The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 04, 1796.

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Libertarian Party, Security And Freedom

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• ...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

  David Rockefeller

  Logical, Entity, Seems

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• The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

  Gore Vidal

  America, Broken, Giving

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• Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of the country, but which are beyond your control, to the all-wise direction of an over-ruling Providence. Perform those duties which are present, plain and positive. Respect the laws of your country.

  Daniel Webster

  Years, America, Miracle

  Letter to Dr. William B. Gooch of West Dennis, Massachusetts, in 1851. The Bay State Monthly, 1898.

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• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Humor, Magic In The World

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.82, Bantam

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