Quote by Barack Obama
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. – Barack Obama

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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. – Barack Obama

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Freedom
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People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time. – Barack Obama

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Time
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Its not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. – William Weld

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Government

Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic — they are pus. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Government

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development. – Andrew Cuomo

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Government

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. – Alan Keyes

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Government

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. – David Hume

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alone

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. – Leo Rosten

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communication

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux thats the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I dont have to run your OS, and you dont have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! – Jamie Zawinski

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Beauty

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

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Music