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• The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty.
  -- John Adams (1772)...
• As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
  -- John Adam...
• So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 548...
• It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his natio
  hat the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole....
• I have just learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy.
  First, let her think she's having her way. And second, let her have it. -- Lyndon B. Johnso...
• On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government for four years, no matter what it does.
  -- Will Roge...
• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
  -- Will Roge...