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~ A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom ~
~ The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies ~
~ We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it ~
~ The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. ~
~ We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added ~
~ Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. ~
~ When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs ~
~ Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right ~
~ If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. ~
~ The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good ~
~ If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. ~
~ Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them ~
~ The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not ~
~ And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man ~
~ With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right ~
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