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William Weld

"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free."

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"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free."

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"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."

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"All government, of course, is against liberty."

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"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

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"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

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"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

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"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."

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"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."

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"In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government."

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"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."

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"Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice."
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"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep."
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"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."
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"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."
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"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."
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"The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government."
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"It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office."
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"Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government."
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"We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody."
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"Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that."
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