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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. – William Ellery Channing

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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. – Elizabeth I

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The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. – Paul Ryan

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. – Milton Friedman

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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isnt willing to. – Bill Gates

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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell

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Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle – that one-eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains – so simple, so true, if once understood. – Max Muller

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