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Quote by Frederic Bastiat
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

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And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? – Frederic Bastiat

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Education
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Frederic Bastiat
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? – Frederic Bastiat

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Freedom
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Frederic Bastiat
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. – Frederic Bastiat

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Property
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Frederic Bastiat
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We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. – Theresa May

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Government

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. – Donald Rumsfeld

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Government

Good government is the outcome of private virtue. – John Jay Chapman

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Government

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. – Kay Bailey Hutchison

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Government

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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. – Winston Churchill

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Especially with a comedy, youve got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. Its not like drama where youre trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. Youre trying to figure out whats the funniest way to do something. – Luke Wilson

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. – Homer

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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. – William Westmoreland

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