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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. – Jimmy Carter

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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land. – Jimmy Carter

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Peace
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Jimmy Carter
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. – Jimmy Carter

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Health
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Jimmy Carter
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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. – George Pataki

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An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Womens Affairs. Man, whod she have to show here ankles to to get that job? – Tina Fey

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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. – John Perry Barlow, 1992

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Governments never learn. Only people learn. – Milton Friedman

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The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didnt want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen. – Gil Scott-Heron

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