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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to mans rig

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to mans rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. – Ayn Rand

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Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. – Ayn Rand

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Just as man cant exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate ones rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. – Ayn Rand

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Ive got the greatest job in the world. Theres no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different peoples lives. Its a great challenge. – Michael Bloomberg

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I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. – Martin Sheen

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We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. Whats more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government. – Lucy Powell

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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. – Richard Lamm

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Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James

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No useful man has time to go back and rub out his unfortunate foot prints. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894

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And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life – it lives in the constant present. – John Guare

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Chess is ruthless: youve got to be prepared to kill people. – Nigel Short

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