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Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Ob

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. – Thomas Frank

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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a Near Great even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. – Thomas Frank

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War
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Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense. – Thomas Frank

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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. Its authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. – Thomas Frank

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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what theyre doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire. – Benjamin Carson

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Its the federal governments job to secure the border. – Carly Fiorina

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The government invented the Internet. – Jon Meacham

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Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. – Andrew Cuomo

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