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Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

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[We should] have a tax structure which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

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If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

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The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

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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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William E. Simon

William E. Simon
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Born: November 27, 1927
Died: June 3, 2000 (aged 72)
Bio: William Edward Simon was a businessman, a Secretary of Treasury of the U.S. for three years, and a philanthropist. He became the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury on May 9, 1974, during the Nixon administration.
Known for:
  1. A Time for Truth (1978)
  2. A time for reflection
  3. A time for action (1980)
  4. Great Catholic Parishes: A Living Mosiac
  5. Reforming the income tax system (1981)

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