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" How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. "

Henry David Thoreau

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" Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. "

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