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It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.