"If you have ten thousand regulations you..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”
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“Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that has created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and rewarded the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon of science, and technology, and discovery. But the American economy has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle - that America prospers when all Americans can prosper. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest.”