If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! - Golda Meir

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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. -Golda Meir

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It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

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Even paranoids have real enemies. - Golda Meir

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. - Golda Meir

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I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government. - Meir Kahane

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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. - Golda Meir

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