Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr.) Quotes
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
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Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
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If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.
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America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
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No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
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The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom. How could a man be unhappy outside the camp?
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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.
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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
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There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.
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Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.
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I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.
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As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
