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Cornelius Tacitus
The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.
Senator Jim Talent
“The two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage, and the government withdrew its assistance from any poor person who openly engaged in either of these activities.”
Cal Thomas
“In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.”
Andrew Tobias
Tax Day Quote
“If the government announced a program of forced labor and conscripted its citizens to work for a third of the year without compensation, there would be a revolt. But that is, in effect, EXACTLY what the government has done.” – Andrew Tobias (New York Times, Jan. 30, 1987)
Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.”
Lilly Tomlin
“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”
Mark Twain
“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
Public Servants: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
Charlotte Twight
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.” Charlotte Twight (from Dependent on D.C., as quoted by Walter Williams)
Alexander Tytler
“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, always followed by a dictatorship.”
United States Supreme Court
“To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under forms of law and called taxation.” – United States Supreme Court; Savings and Loan Assc. v. Topeka,(1875).
“If the novel view of the General Welfare Clause now advanced in support of the tax were accepted, this clause would not only enable Congress to supplant the states in the regulation of agriculture and all other industries as well, but would furnish the means whereby all of the other provisions of the Constitution, sedulously framed to define and limit the powers of the United States and preserve the powers of the states, could be broken down, the independence of the individual states obliterated, and the United States converted into a central government exercising uncontrolled police power throughout the union superseding all local control over local concerns.” – United States v. Butler Supreme Court, 1935).
Abigail Van Buren
“Maturity is the ability: to do a job whether you’re supervised or not; to finish a job once it’s started; to carry money without spending it; and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.”
Gore Vidal
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
Ludwig Von Mises
“Big government is the most corrupt industry in America.”
“[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity . . .” George Washington, First Inaugural Address, [April 30, 1789]
“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.”
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.—One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible.—avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it—avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of Peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little Political connection as possible…. ’Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world;… Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
Washington Times
“Despite unprecedented sums of money, the nation’s education problems since 1983 remain unsolved. Why one of the world’s most rabidly free-market nations refuses to give parents the freedom to choose their preferred education options is a testament to the stranglehold at the hands of the teachers’ and other unions. There’s probably not much wrong with public education that cannot be solved with a large dose of competition.” – Washington Times editorial, 4/26/03
“We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it’s called California.” – Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.)
Noah Webster
“In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate — look to his character….”
“If you don’t study,” she often warned, “you’ll be nothing. Absolutely nothing. There are no shortcuts. Don’t kid yourself!” Jack Welch quoting his mother
Elie Wiesel
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
“(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.”
For the bulk of universities and colleges, diversity means race quotas, sex quotas and programs to insure that representative forms of sexual deviancy become an accepted norm. To insure this politically correct vision of campus life, there’s one form of diversity that can’t be tolerated. That’s ideological and political diversity; there must be uniformity and identity. ….It means your son or daughter will be taught that the Founders of United States were racists and sexists; capitalism is a tool used to oppress women and minorities; literature and philosophy written by “dead white men” is a tool of exploitation, one person’s vision of reality is just as valid as another’s, one set of cultural values (maybe the Taliban’s) is just as good as another, poverty is caused by rich people, and America is destroying the planet.
Garry Wills
“What has crippled our political discourse is a long-indurated habit of demanding from government qualities that should be sought, primarily, in other aspects of our social life. Government plays a limited role in human activity, and it should have the aspects suited to its limits. It cannot be the family, the church, the local club, the private intellectual circle –all of which show the anti-governmental qualities some seek to impose on the state. When government does not show all the human virtues, it is rejected as contributing to none of them. That asks too much of government, as a preliminary to expecting nothing of it.
“This is admittedly an American tradition. But it is a tradition that belittles America, that asks us to love our country by hating our government, that turns our founding fathers into unfounders, that glamorizes frontier settlers in order to demean what they settled, that obliges us to despise the very people we vote for. Our country, our founders, our representatives deserve better. So do we, who sustain them all.”
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