"In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere."
— Statism

January 1, 1970

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Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (1 July 1854?) in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln", ed. Roy P. Basler, Vol. 2, pp. 220-221