The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.
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Government must continue to live within its means.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.
If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.
Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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