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Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

The people want government that works for them at every level.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.