Quote by Henry Clay
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trus

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. – Henry Clay

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

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People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free. – Glenn Beck

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