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| "I believe in freedom and free enterprise. Government programs didn't motivate pioneers to go across the Oregon Trail." — Gordon Smith, Oregon senator, during the "Republican Revolution" of the mid-1990's. |
| "Most pre-Civil War overlanders found the U.S. Government, through its armed forces, military installations, Indian agents, explorers, surveyors, road builders, physicians, and mail carriers, to be an impressively potent and helpful force." — John D. Unruh, Jr., historian. |
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