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"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."

"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law."

"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor."

"It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies."

"My mantra is Development". It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This can be achieved through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us."

"On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government."

"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

"They despite and hate the government more and more, but they don't know how to set about changing it. The country is dying for some sort of lead, and so far all it is getting is a crowd of fresh professional leaders. Who never get anywhere. Who do not seem to be aiming anywhere. We are living in a world of jaded politics. Poverty increases, prices rise, unemployment spreads, mines, factories stagnate, and nothing is done."
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"If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand."


"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."


"If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party."
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