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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

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" When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. "

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" The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. "

" I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies. "

" Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. "

" When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. "

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" What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. "

" The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. "

" If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that. "

" Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. "

" When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. "

" As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government. "

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" But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. "

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" The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. "

" I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. "

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" We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. "

" The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. "

" Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "

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" In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. "

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" Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when you realize that the native peoples of this land are negotiating for land that is, by all common sense and elementary school logic, their land. "

" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "

" Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. "

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" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. "

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