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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."
"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country."
"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."
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"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."
"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
"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."
"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
"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."
"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
"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."
"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."
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