Quote by Steve Forbes
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, th

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream. – Steve Forbes

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Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China. – Steve Forbes

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Failure
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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of peoples money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. – Steve Forbes

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Government
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The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. – Steve Forbes

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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. – Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929

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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. – L. Neil Smith

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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. – William Hague

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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. – Titus Livius

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Random Quotes

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. – William Lyon Phelps

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Nature

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. – Marvin Gaye

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Peace

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted its the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. – Muhammad Yunus

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Future

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. – S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind

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