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In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.
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The taxpayer—that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a Civil Service examination.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
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We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
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The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
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Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.
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Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
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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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Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.
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Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
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Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.
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Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
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The Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
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Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time."
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
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"We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the people" are free.
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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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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Talk is cheap — except when Congress does it. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
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Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.
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Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.
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All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.
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If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.
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Born:
February 6, 1911
Died:
June 5, 2004
(aged 93)
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