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Will Rogers

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

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