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Running the country

Things in our country run in spite of the government, not by the aid of it.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 4, 2010November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Will Rogers

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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