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“Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.”

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Author:Sarah Palin

“Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.”

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Author:Daniel Webster

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

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Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”

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Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836