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“Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.”

“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.”

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Book:The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914

Source: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914

“The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.”

People World Way Government Peace Demand

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

Thinking War Play Government Peace Media Presses Propaganda Anti War Keyboards Nazism Nazi Germany German History Media Control

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.”

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Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace