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On the recordApril 25, 1975
I often used to sit back in the rear seats of the House of Representatives and ask myself, 'Didn't they realize that 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 a Republican Party Reception in Alexandria, Virginia

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