Friday, September 4, 2009

A government big enough to give you everything....

Who wrote, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."?


Gerald Ford (14 July 1913 – 26 December 2006) , the 38th President of the United States.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974)
Ford has also been quoted as having made a similar statement many years earlier, as a representative to the US Congress: "If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."
"If Elected, I Promise…" : Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1960) p. 193"
Source:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford

1 comment:

  1. These are words of wisdom. These are words to live by.

    This is the kind of stuff we should be teaching our kids in school.

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