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" The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. "

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" The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. "

Milton Friedman

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" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "

" Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. "

" The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. "

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

" There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy. "

" So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. "

" Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence. "

" Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. "

" The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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" If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb. "

" By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. "

" That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one. "

" No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. "

" I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide. "

" The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations. "

" A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. "

" To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. "

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "

" The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. "

" We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. "

" Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. "

" The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. "

" Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. "

" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "

" The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. "

" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "

" The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. "