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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

~Frank Herbert

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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Topics: Architecture Beautiful Better Chicago City Eventually Government Great Great City How Left Maybe Most Most Beautiful Operate Result Show Think Will World I Think

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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

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It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

~Frank Peretti

Topics: Abuse God Government Knowledge Man Nature Out Picture Power Real Realm Science Street Take Trouble Wall Wall Street You

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Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse.

~Frank Pierson

Topics: Brief Broadcast Censorship Control Direct Effect Even Even Worse Form Government Guessing Means Might Network Representative Tolerate Very Which Worse

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My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

~Frank Rich

Topics: Duck First Government Historical Kennedy Lifetime Native Odd Parents Particular Point Presidential Product Remember Sentient Transition Upbringing Vantage Vividly Were Whose I Remember

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There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.

~Frankie Shaw

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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Topics: Alien Country Democracy Forget Government Government Officials Let Us Never Never Forget Officials Our Ourselves Over Power President Rulers Senators Ultimate Us Voters

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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Topics: Continuing Control Enough Government Informed Interests Liberty Maintain Only Over People Protect Sovereign Strong Sure Well Well Enough

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