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“It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.”

Sometimes States Reason Done Government Clear Policy Program Bases Locals Fund Grants Temporary Federal Government Salary

Author:Jim Talent

“Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a "barbed-wire entanglement" designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power.”

“An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.”

Government Impossible Invention Grants Patents

Book:The Door Into Summer

Source: The Door Into Summer

“As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.”

People Government Pain Grows Abuse Favors Grants

Author:John Fund

“Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself”