One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

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• William Weld:

  Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

• William Weld:

  In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as wh

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  The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

• William Weld:

  I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

• William Weld:

  There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

• William Weld:

  Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they

• William Weld:

  We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for

• William Weld:

  It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

• William Weld:

  Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its hig

• William Weld:

  I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.