Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Henry Clay
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  1. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. - Ronald Reagan

  2. If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. - Stephen Colbert

  3. Is it better to be loved or feared? - Unknown

  4. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. - Bob Black

  5. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... - Ayn Rand

More Quotes By Henry Clay
  1. If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.

  2. Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

  3. And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

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