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John Maynard Keynes

"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

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"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

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Amber Hurdle

"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

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Amber Hurdle

"A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both."

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Amber Hurdle

"The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it."

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Amber Hurdle

"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."

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Amber Hurdle

"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."

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Amber Hurdle

"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

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Amber Hurdle

"A government of laws, and not of men."

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"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods."
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"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."
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"Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own."
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"Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated."
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"For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still."
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"It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still."
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"Ideas shape the course of history."
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"I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."
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