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“Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.”

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Book:The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy

Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy

“Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.”

Source: Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer

“An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.”

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Book:The collected works of Walter Bagehot

Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot