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The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Lyn Nofziger

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Lyn Nofziger
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 8
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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Bakersfield
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A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.
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I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
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I don't like government, it's just that simple.
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As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!
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...guns do more than protect us from criminals more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
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To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone.
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Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
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I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
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The concerted effort to minimize Christmas has resulted in it being our national Happy Holiday holiday. The Christmas season is now the holiday season. Christmas parties are now holiday parties. Christmas is a time for giving and receiving presents and in many homes, nothing more. Who is this fellow, Jesus Christ, anyway?
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The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.
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Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
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I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.
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