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- The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
- William Strong
- That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
- Tim Freeman
- Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
- James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), The Dosadi Experiment
- Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution?
- C. D. Tavares
- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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