"There is an important sense in which..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
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“Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.”
“All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.”
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
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“What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.”
“Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'”
“Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.”
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“Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.”
“I don't think Donald Trump is ideological.”
“Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.”