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“ The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. ”

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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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