The legitimate business of government is to do for a people or a community those things which they cannot do at all for themselves, or cannot so well do in their separate capacities; but in all those things that people can do for themselves, the government ought not to interfere.
Address at the Republican Precinct Day Rally, Denver, Colorado
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