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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers – we need our faith-based and community partners.
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.