"We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions."

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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President

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"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

Wendell Willkie, American Lawyer

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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."

Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician

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

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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

Geoff Davis, American Politician

Government, Taxes, Want

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

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."

Michael Newdow, American Lawyer

Government, Religion, Society, Constitution

"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."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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

Max Lerner, American Journalist

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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."

Cal Thomas, American Journalist

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"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."

Employment

"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"

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"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"

Hell

"We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are."

Work

"It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet."

Dieting

"Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now."

Future

"Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same."

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"We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"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."

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

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

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

"The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."

"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."

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

"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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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."

"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."

"The government is becoming the family of last resort."

"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."

"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"

"We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are."

"It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet."

"Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now."

"Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same."