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Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violenc

Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. – Edgar A. Suter

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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. – Sam Ewing

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. – Barry Goldwater

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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. – H. L. Mencken

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We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met. – Samuel Wilson

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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. – Charles Babbage

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World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. – Gifford Pinchot

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