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It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

Government, People, Death Penalty

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Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

John Pugsley

Government, Law, Opposites

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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Government, Political, Liberty

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “Political and moral dimensions”, p.435, Transaction Publishers

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War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

War, Government, Liberty

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The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

H. L. Mencken

Strong, Fake, Support

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.80, Knopf

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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.

Edward James Olmos

Caring, Helping Others, Government

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Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.

Ron Paul

War, Sacrifice, Loss

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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

Men, Thinking, Political

"The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Novel by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H. L. Mencken

Funny, Laughter, Freedom

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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken

Liberty, Auctions, Politics

"Prejudices: First Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1919.

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Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

James Surowiecki

Government, Payroll Tax, Political

"In Funds We Trust?". www.newyorker.com. December 24 & 31, 2012.

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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

Ben Bernanke

Government, Effort, Trying

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In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

Rick Perry

Government, Michigan, Toilets

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

George Orwell

Christian, Political, Advertising

The Road toWigan Pier ch. 11 (1937)

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Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Richard M. Nixon

Government, White, Black

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My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

Gough Whitlam

Heart, Memorable, Government

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Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

George Will

Government, Order, Punishment

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Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Agency, Government, Healthy

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The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Mia Love

Hard Work, Government, Promise

"In Utah, GOP House Candidate Out To Make History". Interview With Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

Ronald Reagan

Government, Earth, Program

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Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

Ernest Istook

Children, Math, Technology

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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

William Bennett

Character, Government, Support

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Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.

Andre Marrou

Government, Daddy, Political

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[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.

Thomas Sowell

Government, People, United States

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I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

Ronald Reagan

Political, Taxation, Economics

Remarks to American Business Conference, Washington, D.C., 13 Mar. 1985 See Film Lines 164

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