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It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

— Robert Agresta

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The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

We should embrace the disagreement that echoes in this chamber because this is the forum that the founders of our great country envisioned.

The road ahead bears many challenges and now more than ever do the people of our community need a limited government that allows the people to do what they do best … to build their own wealth.

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Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

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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