"Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy."
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"I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books."
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"The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program"
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"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose."
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"For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."
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"There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.""
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"People don't start wars, governments do."
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"Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive"
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"Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats."
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"Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem."
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"The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do."
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"You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard."
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"I don't have too much time for fiction."
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"I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?"
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"If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now."
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"Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."
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"Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
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"What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people."
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"Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free."
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