If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

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If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

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But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.

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We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. - Golda Meir

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The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. - Golda Meir

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It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

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Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. -- Woodrow Wilson

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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

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