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"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
"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita"	Thomas Jefferson
"Information is the currency of democracy."	Thomas Jefferson
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar"	Thomas Jefferson
"Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom."	Andrew Johnson
"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
"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women." (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship."	George Frost Kennan
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."	Anthony M. Kennedy
"[Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials.] I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time."	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
"When you meet the president, you ask yourself, "How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?"	Henry Alfred Kissinger
"If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents."	Edward Irving Koch
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."	Irving Kristol
"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it."	Richard Lamm
"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe."	Christine Lane
"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it."	Lao-Tzu
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