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    Ronald Reagan
    “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: government-programs, scope-of-government
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    Ronald Reagan
    “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: communism, politics
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    Ronald Reagan
    “Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: definitions, depression, recession, slogan
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    Ronald Reagan
    “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
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    Ronald Reagan
    “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: freedom-of-choice, government, inspirational, political-philosophy, politics
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    Ronald Reagan
    “Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: atheism
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    Ronald Reagan
    “Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: political-philosophy, scope-of-government
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville
    tags: misattributed
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville
    tags: theroadtoserfdom
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville
    tags: herd-mentality, slavery
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
    tags: democracy
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville
    tags: democracy, government, serious
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution
    tags: insightful
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    William Randolph Hearst
    “News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
    ― William Randolph Hearst
    tags: misattributed-to-george-orwell, news, public-relations
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: entitlement, government
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    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Carl Sagan
    “Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: authority, carl-sagan, science
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    Carl Sagan
    “A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
    tags: argument-from-authority, complex, dogma, experiment, fallacy, freedom, freedom-of-speech, issues, lesson, science
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the
    gospel of envy.”
    [PERTH, 28 MAY 1948]”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
    inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: common-sense
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    P.J. O'Rourke
    “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”
    ― P.J. O'Rourke
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: appeasement, human, humor, nature, politics
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    Thomas Sowell
    “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
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    Thomas Sowell
    “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
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