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Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.