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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal 
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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