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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you darn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators. Last updated: 3/30/2006 4:05 PM CST |
