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The great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people.
28th president · 1913–1921
Woodrow Wilson
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Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.
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The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves.