We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

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We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

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If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

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The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

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self-control government people

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.

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When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

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old-age miracle age

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

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One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

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smart definitions keys

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

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economics produce results

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.

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The business of government is justice.

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government business justice

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

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I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

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Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

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joining organization america

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

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behavior taste goal

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

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party organization doors

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

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The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

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Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

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concerned injustice needs

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

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community behavior should-have

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

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