"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."

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"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."

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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

Care, Credit

"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

Truth, Feeling

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

Reading, Men, Victory, First

"In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity."

Man, Opinion, Years

"If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house."

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"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"

Time, Committee

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

Man, Men, Belief, Being

"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."

Fact, Facts

"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now."

Now,

"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Barack Obama, American President

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"What Washington needs is adult supervision."

Barack Obama, American President

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"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."

Barack Obama, American President

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"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

Barack Obama, American President

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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

Barack Obama, American President

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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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