“Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.”

— Bill Whittle

What We Believe, Part 1: Small Government and Free Enterprise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLD6VChcWCE (7 October 2010) <br class="br">2010s

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author, director, screenwriter, editor 1959

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