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"Hate doth never prosper, for if it prosper, none dare call it hate."
19th Century Author Unknown
"There is no government regulation, no matter how plausible it initially appears, that will not eventually be applied by some bureaucrat in a way that defies common sense."
North's Law of Bureaucracy
Washington's chronic failure lies in its chronic failure to deal with its chronic failure."
Norman Liebmann
"'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss."
William Shakespeare
"One might plausibly argue, indeed, that the complete disappearance of France would produce no more perturbation in the world than the loss of an ear produces in a man. Brussels and Lucerne would quickly put in better cooks, and Copenhagen, I venture, could take care of the peep-show business without any need of an international loan."
H.L. Mencken, editorial in the American Mercury, April 1927
"There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it."
Margaret Thatcher
"Equal rights and equal opportunity mean just that. They do not mean preferential treatment. Preferences, no matter how well intended, ultimately breed resentment among the non-preferred. And preferential treatment demeans the achievements that minority Americans win by their own efforts."
Colin Powell
"The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave."
Ayn Rand
"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money."
David Crockett, U.S. Congressman (1827-1835)
"The fact is that government, like a highwayman, says to a man: 'Your money or your life.'"
Lysander Spooner
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
Gen. George S. Patton
"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
Martin Luther
"By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creations and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still."
General Douglas MacArthur
"The notion that obedience to a society's laws is always moral is itself immoral."
Dennis Prager
"Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does."
Whittaker Chambers
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
Thomas Sowell
"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."
Ayn Rand
"Democracy is a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."
H.L. Mencken
"The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it."
P.J. O'Rourke
"Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain."
Aubrey T. DeVera
"There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action."
Goethe
"The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government."
Joseph Sobran
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."
General Douglas MacArthur
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
Motto suggested to be included in the original Seal of the United States
"Something to ponder, as our Left-judiciary courts are becoming ever less distinguishable from the tyrant King George, who, the Declaration charges, "refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good ... [and] made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices ... [and] combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation ... [and] taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments ... and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever....""
The Federalist
"...the difference between socialism and communism is the difference between seduction and rape."
Helen Wood Birnie
"Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense."
Robert Heinlein
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
Robert Heinlein
"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Journals, 1824
"Today's political process is nothing more than a street fight between various groups seeking to vote themselves other people's money."
Congressman Ron Paul
"The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty."
Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, dissenting in Knox vs. Lee
"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Socialism is the opiate of the intelligentsia..."
The Federalist Society
"The U.S. government has no business telling the American people what they may and may not buy from people living outside the country. That's called freedom, something earlier Americans actually understood and valued."
Sheldon Richman, a scholar at the Future of Freedom Foundation,
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller
"In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves."
Walter Williams
"Americans are becoming increasingly addicted to government, and politicians are becoming the dealers of the drug named 'dependency'."
Rep. Jim DeMint
"[The federal tax code is a confusing conglomeration that] 'at best is a walking due process violation.'"
Larry Becraft, Huntville, AL lawyer defending Vernice Kuglin against tax evasion charges levied by the IRS
"In the long run, even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas."
Ludwig Von Mises
"The question is: Will [gold] ever again become money? This is the most important of all monetary questions."
Gary North
"Nothing is permanent except death, taxes, and the lies of politicians, but in the West, the de-monetization of gold appears to be as permanent as the West. The West has bet its future on fractional reserve banking. This is additional evidence that the West is doomed. It has placed the extension of the division of labor into the hands of the bankers' cartel."
Gary North
"...[I]n imperial Washington, states have become nothing more than glorified counties."
Ron Paul
"History won't be very kind to today's black mayors, state legislators and congressmen when it examines how black youngsters have had their futures compromised by a callous, corrupt education system while black politicians not only fiddled but organized resistance to any measure that might introduce accountability."
Walter Williams
"It was the abandonment of the gold standard that made modern barbarism affordable."
Gary North
"There's no such thing as "sustainable" development. Human progress and individual liberty have advanced on the backs of one unsustainable development after another: When we needed trees for heating and transportation, we chopped 'em down. Then we discovered oil, and the trees grew back. When the oil runs out, we won't notice because our SUVs will be powered by something else. Bet on human ingenuity every time. We're not animals, and it's a cult as deranged as the screwiest fringe religion to insist we are. Earth's most valuable resource is us."
Mark Steyn
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
President John F. Kennedy, 1963
"Madness is often a combination of cold reason and [imaginative] fantasy severed from all reality."
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited
"For all practical purposes, there are no races anymore. In America, there are freedom fighters and there are those who would enslave all of us, regardless of race - and it's time to choose a side."
Erik Rush
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money."
Stephen T. Byington, 1895
"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."
John Quincy Adams
"The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
Douglas MacArthur
"But, of course, no one will ever hijack an American plane ever again -- not because of idiotic confiscations of tweezers, but because of the brave passengers on that fourth flight. That's why, three months later, the great British shoebomber had barely got the match to his sock before half the cabin pounded the crap out of him. Even the French. To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate."
Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times, 9/17/2003
"Righteousness is usually inversely proportional to understanding."
Ed Powell
"I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution."
President Grover Cleveland, vetoing an 1887 bill granting relief for drought-stricken Texas Farmers
"The problem isn't the abuse of power, it's the power to abuse."
Michael Cloud
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
Fredrick Bastiat
"...since no individual has the right to enslave another individual, then no group of individuals can possibly have such a right."
Fredrick Bastiat
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest."
Adam Smith
" . . . the poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail - it's roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storms may enter - but the king of England cannot enter - all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement."
William Pitt
"When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will."
Fredrick Bastiat
"No better weapon against poverty, disease, illiteracy, and tyranny has yet been found . . . Capitalism's compassion for the material needs of humankind has not in history, yet, had a peer."
Michael Novak
"The instrumentality of union, with its united strength and its subordination of the parts, is an irresistible temptation to the power-hungry of every generation."
Richard Weaver, Historian
"The strength of union may first be exercised in the name of freedom, but once it has been made monopolistic and unassailable, it will, if history teaches anything, be used for other purposes."
Richard Weaver, Historian
"[w]hen doctrinaire liberalism is applied to societies," the result is "an enforced Utopia sustained by the police state."
Richard Weaver, Historian
"One cannot feign surprise, therefore, that thirty years after the great struggle to consolidate and unionize American power, the nation embarked on its career of imperialism. The new nationalism enabled Theodore Roosevelt, than whom there was no more staunch advocate of union, to strut and bluster and intimidate our weaker neighbors. Ultimately it launched America upon its career of world imperialism, whose results are now being seen in indefinite military conscription, mountainous debt, restriction of dissent, and other abridgments of classical liberty."
Richard Weaver, Historian
"Its wars and totalitarian revolutions have been without precedent in their barbarism and ferocity. But in addition to this, it has persistently subverted and continues to subvert those independent social authorities and moral communities on which eighteenth-century monarchs had not dared to lay their hands. Its subversion of these authorities, along with its success in providing material welfare, has produced an ever increasing number of rootless individuals whose characters are hedonistic, self-absorbed, and without spirit. We daily accept expropriations, both material and spiritual, from the central government which our ancestors in 1776 and 1861 would have considered non-negotiable."
Donald Livingston, Emory University professor, commenting on the modern, unitary state.
"If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity."
Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America
"The Confederate Battle Flag, ignorantly condemned by American Jacobins as a symbol of slavery that should be forcibly uprooted wherever it is found, has been seen to fly wherever in the world a people seeks to resist their subordination to unchecked central authority."
Thomas Woods, Jr, Professor of History, Suny Suffolk University
"Once the right to tax is conceded to an institution said to possess a monopoly on the use of force, no feeble constitution can stand in the way of its expansion."
Thomas Woods, Jr, commenting on wisdom from Hans Herman Hoppe.
"The expansion of capitalism owes its origins and raison d'être to political anarchy."
Jean Baechler
"If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority."
Alexis De Tocqueville
"One man with courage makes a majority,"
Andrew Jackson
"The people of this country, if ever they lose their liberties, will do it by sacrificing some great principle of government to temporary passion. There are certain great principles, which if they are not held inviolable, at all seasons, our liberty is gone. If we give them up, it is perfectly immaterial what is the character of our sovereign; whether he be King or President, elective or hereditary - it is perfectly immaterial what is his character - we shall be slaves - it is not an elective government which will preserve us."
John Randolph, Southern Conservative, Roanoke, VA, 1813.
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
Daniel Webster
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."
Fredrick Bastiat
"Human or individual rights, such as the rights to life, liberty and property, are derived from man's innate moral agency and capacity for reason."
Ilana Mercer, 2003
"The only thing liberals have done for blacks is give them an inferiority complex."
Charles Barkley
The problem of socialist economic calculation is precisely this: that in the absence of market prices for the factors of production, a computation of profit or loss is not feasible.
Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action
“Our children and grand babies have no future except as indentured servants, that's a fact."
Devvy Kidd
"We cannot ignore the fact that when the Soviets took power in Russia, they taught Russians to hate their past, to reject their parents, to condemn and even to forget their history."
Ronald F. Maxwell, Film Maker, Director of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals
"There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic have always resorted to guns."
Ayn Rand
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy."
Winston Churchill, 1948
"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive."
Ayn Rand
"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Politicians, Like Bombers, Seldom See Their Victims..."
Dr. Donald Boudreaux, in his article, "Losing Touch"
"[a]rbitrary government actions which infringe property interests cannot be saved from constitutional infirmity by the beneficial purposes of the regulators."
Janice Rogers Brown
"Theft is still theft even when the government approves of the thievery."
Janice Rogers Brown
"The right to express one's individuality and essential human dignity through the free use of property is just as important as the right to do so through speech, the press, or the free exercise of religion."
Janice Rogers Brown
"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
Th' eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers"
Bryant
"You cannot love freedom and seek government-provided economic security from your government. You chose either one or the other."
Neal Boortz
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge
"Any ideology can probably be described as a systematic way of misunderstanding the world."
Fred Reed
"The war against drugs is wrong both tactically and morally. It assumes people are too stupid, too reckless and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."
Larry Elder
"1. The use of informers, 2. Filling the prisons, 3. Disproportionate imprisonment of blacks, 4. Destruction of inner cities, 5. Compounding the harm to users, 6. Undertreatment of chronic pain, 7. Harming foreign countries."
Economist Milton Friedman, listing reasons to abandon the drug war
"The Democrats' conception of a "plan" is like the liberal fantasy that there's a room somewhere full of unlimited amounts of "free" money that we could just give to teachers and hospitals and poor people and AIDS sufferers and the homeless if only the bad, greedy Republicans would give us the key to that wonderful room. Republicans should claim the "plan" is in that room. In a lockbox."
Ann Coulter
"Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.”
Ronald Reagan
"For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals."
Ronald Reagan
"Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed."
Ronald Reagan
"All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government."
Ronald Reagan
"There is a saying among activists of the Left that "worse is better." The more alienated and unhappy people feel, the more susceptible they are for recruitment into the revolutionary cause. For that reason, many leftists deliberately promote policies that they know will cause misery, suffering and chaos."
Richard Poe
"As the power of the family declines, the power of the Left grows."
Richard Poe
"Could it be that, given a choice between a "bourgeois" society of happy, prosperous families and an authoritarian police state, Bill Clinton actually preferred the latter?"
Richard Poe, commenting on Clinton’s quote: "When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
"Politics belongs to those who show up."
Unknown
"I'm proud to be a taxpaying American, but I could be just as proud for half the money!"
Will Rogers
"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make things happen."
Dr. Robert Jarvick
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
H.L. Mencken
"Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!"
John Paul Jones
"So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants."
Tacitus
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!"
Walter Scott
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
George William Curtis
"Let abhorrence be for those who wage wanton or wicked wars, who with ruthless violence oppress the upright and the unoffending."
Theodore Roosevelt
"It's become a matter of survival for business to pay tributes to politicians in return for protection against harmful edicts and legislation."
George Smith
"... [I]n the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."
George W. Bush
"Did 9-11 teach us nothing about blowback? The terrorists were over here because we were over there, dominating the Islamic world culturally, politically, militarily."
Pat Buchanan
"The Bush strategy of moral interventionism in the internal affairs of foreign nations, to rearrange their societies on an American model, is a formula for endless war abroad and Big Government forever at home."
Pat Buchanan
"Secular nations have one thing in common -- mass graves, and the reason is that they believe the government is the final arbiter of right and wrong and good and evil."
Unidentified supporter of Judge Roy Moore
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Isaac Asimov
"When something cannot go on, it has a tendency to stop."
Herb Stein, chairman of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."
Thomas Sowell
"It has been pointed out that the days of democracy are numbered once the belly takes command of the head. When the less affluent feel the urge to break a commandment and begin to covet that which their more affluent neighbors possess, they are tempted to use their votes to obtain instant satisfaction. Then equal opportunity at the starting line becomes an extended guarantee of at least a tie at the finish of the race. Under the euphemism 'the greatest good for the greatest number,' we destroy a system which has accomplished just that and move toward the managed economy which strangles freedom and mortgages generations yet to come."
Ronald Reagan
"One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field."
Senator Zell Miller
"The fraud and the poseur have the run of our institutions and cultural products!"
Ilana Mercer
"The truth is, the only enemies we have are those our own government is manufacturing to justify a powerful central government that is sucking the wealth and liberty out of this country like some monstrous leech."
Charley Reese
"The degree of integrity is inversely proportional to the number and complexities of rules and bureaucracy."
Geoff Metcalf
"The first step toward solving a problem is to find some humor in it."
Unknown
"Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself."
Vaclax Havel, Summer Meditations
"... There is no such thing in America as an independent press ... We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes ... Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, former New York Times Chief of Staff
"I am literally a grandchild of the American Civil War, and I belonged to the losing side. Had the issue of that war been the abolition of slavery, I could not have faulted our defeat-morally at least. But Mr. Lincoln-the first of the modern tyrants-chose to fight the war not on the issue of slavery but on the holiness and indivisibility of a union that he alone had any understanding of. With his centralizing of all power at Washington this "reborn" (sic) union was ready for a world empire that has done us as little good as it has done the world we have made so many messes in."
Gore Vidal
"When everyone is out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking."
Unknown
"[H]istory repeats itself first as tragedy, and then as farce..."
Ryan McMaken (original?)
“The way the country puked up its ancient principles at the first touch of temptation was sickening.”
William James, commenting on the Senate's “jingoinst approval” of annexing the Phillipines
"We are false in all we have believed in. This great free land which for more than a century has offered a refuge to the oppressed of every land has now turned to oppression."
Moorfield Storey
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and notwithstanding go out to meet it."
Thucydides
“He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”
John Milton
“Politics, n. strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
Ambrose Bierce
“If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.”
Justice Arthur Goldberg
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein
“Political forecasting has one essential function, which is to make astrology look respectable.”
Argus Hamilton
“They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”
Ronald Reagan
“You know how Congress is. They'll vote for anything if the thing they vote for will turn around and vote for them. Politics ain't nothing but reciprocity.”
Will Rogers
“Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism.”
George Orwell
“Politicians have learned well how to swamp us with garbage while claiming it's ambrosia.”
Brad Edmonds
“Those who are too smart to enter into politics will be governed by those who are not.”
Plato
“Noise proves nothing. Often the hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
Mark Twain
“A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.”
Paul Craig Roberts
“Roll back the state. It is bloated beyond any reasonable view of the Constitution, and is an affront to the principles of the American founding.”
David Deiteman
“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ‘needed’ before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents "interests, " I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.”
Barry Goldwater
“I do not believe in vile acquittals, phony appeasements, easy forgiveness. Even less, in the exploitation or the blackmail of the word Peace. When peace stands for surrender, fear, loss of dignity and freedom, it is no longer peace. It is suicide.”
Oriana Fallaci
“It is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”
C.S. Lewis
“When you wake up in the morning and drink that first cup of coffee, you pay a sales tax. When you start your car, you pay an automobile tax. Drive to work, you pay a gas tax. At work, you pay an income tax -- and a payroll tax. You get home at night, and you pay a property tax. Flip on the light -- you're paying an electricity tax. Turn on the TV -- you pay a cable tax. Make a telephone call, you pay a utility tax. Brush your teeth, you'll pay a water tax. Even when you die, you pay a death tax. We are an overtaxed nation and hard-working Americans deserve a break.”
Sen. Trent Lott
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, followed always by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
Alexander Fraser Tytler
“We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.... But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure....”
Ronald Reagan (1964)
“History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.”
William Graham Sumner
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H.L. Mencken, In Politics
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
“I figure if we have to go, why go quietly?”
<name withheld to protect the innocent>
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.”
Albert Einstein
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