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"Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."
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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to."
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"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."
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