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“Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”

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Author:Charley Reese

“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.”

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Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”

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Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government