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Not Vietnam, we have a government that has a support of the majority of the people.
Late Show with David Letterman, June 16, 2005 -
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
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Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
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NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
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Of course not, she agreed, You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
Warbreaker (2009) Blushweaver -
On my honor, I swear to you, that from my first day in office to the last breath I draw, I will do everything in my power to make you proud of your government.
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Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation
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