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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

— Daniel Webster

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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever.

Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826)

There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

Argument on the murder of Captain Joseph White (1830)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

On the Agriculture of England (1840)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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