Outline of West Virginia - Government and Politics of West Virginia

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“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
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“While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue, I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.”
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