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# From the Government
- URL: https://www.smoothpebbles.org/from-the-government/
- Published: 2025-11-23T04:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-04T04:17:47.000Z
- Author: Richard Flanders

- “If you get your food from the government, the government can starve you.
- If you get your healthcare from the government, the government can let you die.
- If you get your housing from the government, the government can throw you in the street.
- If you get your education from the government, the government decides what you think.
- If you get your news from the government, the government decides what you know.
- If you get your protection from the government, the government decides who your enemy is.
- If you get your freedom from the government, you were never free at all.
- If you get your purpose in life from the government, then you cease to exist.”  
    
\~Logan Lancing