“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
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Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.