Past and Present

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
- Voltaire
(French Philosopher and Writer, 1694-1778)

"The government is best which governs least."
-Thomas Paine
(English born American writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution.)

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
-Ronald Reagan

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