A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald R. Ford
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  1. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. - Ronald Reagan

  2. If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. - Stephen Colbert

  3. Is it better to be loved or feared? - Unknown

  4. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. - Bob Black

  5. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... - Ayn Rand

More Quotes By Gerald R. Ford
  1. The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

  2. Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.

  3. If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

  4. A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

  5. I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

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