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“The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.”

People Government Lays Mail Airline

Author:C. R. Smith

“It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.”

People Government Generations Lays Contingency Unforeseen

Book:Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.”

Government Aim Foundation Lays Preserves Revolutionary Republic Constitutional Government

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.”

Source: The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

“The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.”

Enough Government Taxes Lays Heavy

Author:Orville Dewey

“From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.”

Way Giving Dream Hands Government Poor Rich Huge Letting Go Resources Rivers Lays Corruption Enterprise Cynical Monument Dams

Author:Arundhati Roy