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If we as a government cannot protect the most innocent among us, then what is the point of government in the first place?

— Julie Slama

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The people of District 1 want someone from Day 1 who will advocate for them and serve them. I didn't come here to just sit back and watch.

Julie Slama Nebraska's 22-year-old state senator (2019)

For me, when you're exercising your most important right as an American citizen, I think it's the most simplest, most basic form of election security possible that you produce an I.D., and you prove that you are who you say you are.

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

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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