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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
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“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”
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“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
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“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
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“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
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