"Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth."
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"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
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"We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems"
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"Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society."
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"Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?"
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"You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them."
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"Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property."
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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
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"Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so."
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"If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty."
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"As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion."
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"Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense"
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"Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours."
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"He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history."
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"Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden."
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"... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all."
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"During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners."
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"The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust."
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"Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while."
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"We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities."
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