"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
-William Ellery Channing
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"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.“
-William Ellery Channing
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"The great hope of society is in individual character."
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"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
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"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
-William Ellery Channing
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"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
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"The world is governed by opinion."
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"Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one."
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"People create jobs, not the government."
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"We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government."
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"I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs."
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"It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
-Scott Walker
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