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Henry de Jouvenel: “A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.”

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Louis D. Brandeis: “The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”

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Pat Schroeder: “You measure a government by how few people need help.”

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Carl Sagan: “Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

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Susan B. Anthony: “No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.”

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Frederick Douglass: “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

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Howard Dean: “I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.”

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Ann Richards: “I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.”

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Jimmy Carter: “Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”

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Michael Wolfe: “Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world class boeuf bourguignon: if you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are unlikely to do it well.”

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John Gardner: “When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”

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Louis D. Brandeis: “To declare that the end justifies the means, to declare that the government may commit crimes, would bring terrible retribution.”

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Woodrow Wilson: “The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

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Howard Zinn: “I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -- that history is a protective armor against being misled.”

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Hubert H. Humphrey: “Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”

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Thomas Paine: “The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?”

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Rowan D. Williams: “A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.”

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Thomas Paine: “We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.”

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Harry S Truman: “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.”

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Gro H. Brundtland: “More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.”

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Walter Lippmann: “In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ”

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Thomas Jefferson: “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

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Barack Obama: “I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.”

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Barack Obama: “Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.”

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Barack Obama: “What Washington needs is adult supervision.”

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Barack Obama: “You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit -- the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us -- the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this -- when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers -- it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.”

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G. K. Chesterton: “Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.”

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