Quote by George Will
World War II was the last government program that really worked. -

World War II was the last government program that really worked. – George Will

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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible lifestyles turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. – George Will

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Food
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I suppose theres a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And its the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. – George Will

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Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives. – Rick Perry

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I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. – Richard Rumbold, 1685

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As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. – Bill Owens

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. – Thomas Jefferson

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. – Rollo May

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I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. – Jackson Browne

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