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On the recordApril 14, 1975
May I add very quickly: Never forget, a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at the Annual Republican Party Senate-House Fundraising Dinner

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