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Quoting Ronald Reagan

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"As government expands, liberty contracts.""Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.""In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.""Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive"Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson … [Read more...] about Quoting Ronald Reagan

Quoting Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.""In the councils of government, we must guard … [Read more...] about Quoting Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quoting Carl Sagan

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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Carl Sagan

Quoting Mark Twain

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"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.""The government is merely a servant?merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Mark Twain

Quoting Benjamin Franklin

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"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Benjamin Franklin

Quoting Ayn Rand

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"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."Related Links: The 2016 Municipal Elections in Nelson Mandela Bay. … [Read more...] about Quoting Ayn Rand