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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. – Gerald R. Ford

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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arent enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. – Ayn Rand

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility. – Jonathan Krohn

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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. – P. J. ORourke

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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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