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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government’s business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.