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"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy."	Irish Blessing
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."	William Edgar Borah
"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."	Miguel de Cervantes
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."	William Ellery Channing
"How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?"	General Charles De Gaulle
"We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves."	Marquis de Sade
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military."	William Orville Douglas
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."	James Abram Garfield
"Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?"	Kahlil Gibran
"I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society."	Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
"Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."	Thomas Jefferson
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."	Thomas Jefferson
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."	Thomas Jefferson
"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."	Thomas Jefferson
"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy." (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
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