#over

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#defeats #going #great #great man #his

The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#i #us #you

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. ↗

— Elihu Root

#compels #considerate #constitute #constitutional #constitutional government

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

#every #fancied #forward #governments #keep

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

#among #conception #constitutional #constitutional government #duties

Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day. ↗

— David Rose

#allows #cost #data #day #every

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. ↗

— John Ruskin

#duty #education #first #food #fuel

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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