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" There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "

Benjamin Franklin

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" I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. "

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" Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. "

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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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" A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. "

" The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim. "

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" I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. "

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" The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. "

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" He that won't be counseled can't be helped. "

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" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. "

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" For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. "

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" The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. "

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" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "

" Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. "

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" He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. "

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" He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. "

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" But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. "

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

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" I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work. "

" It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. "

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" The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years. "

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" We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees. "

" Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity. "

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" If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. "

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