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"The political class can’t imagine a decentralized world where good things happen-without them. But in the real world, that’s exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs." — John Stossel

"The seeds of today’s runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can’t help themselves. From that modest, compassionate beginning to today’s out-of-control mega-state, there’s a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it." — Harry Browne

"The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion … In a free society these institutions must be wholly free — which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state." — Alan Barth

"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." — Thomas Jefferson,