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MysteRy · « **Reply #75 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:15:47 AM »

[highlight-text]A little government and a little luck are necessary in life but only a fool trusts either of them.

P. J. O'Rourke

MysteRy · « **Reply #76 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:16:20 AM »

[highlight-text]For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

MysteRy · « **Reply #77 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:16:56 AM »

[highlight-text]I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

William F. Buckley

MysteRy · « **Reply #78 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:17:30 AM »

[highlight-text]Socialism: An attempt to curb the destructive power of monopolies by creating the biggest one of all.

Author Unknown

MysteRy · « **Reply #79 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:18:35 AM »

[highlight-text]From such beginnings of governments what could be expected but a continual system of war and extortion?

Thomas Paine

MysteRy · « **Reply #80 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:19:08 AM »

[highlight-text]Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.

Ronald Reagan

MysteRy · « **Reply #81 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:19:41 AM »

[highlight-text]The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Cullen Hightower

MysteRy · « **Reply #82 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:20:25 AM »

[highlight-text]This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers

MysteRy · « **Reply #83 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:20:56 AM »

[highlight-text]Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Robert Orben

MysteRy · « **Reply #84 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:21:37 AM »

[highlight-text]A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

Abraham Lincoln

MysteRy · « **Reply #85 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:22:11 AM »

[highlight-text]Outside of its legitimate function government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Ronald Reagan

MysteRy · « **Reply #86 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:22:45 AM »

[highlight-text]Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Will Rogers

MysteRy · « **Reply #87 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:23:32 AM »

[highlight-text]Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

Louis D. Brandeis

MysteRy · « **Reply #88 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:24:11 AM »

[highlight-text]I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Alexander Woollcott

MysteRy · « **Reply #89 on:** August 12, 2018, 10:25:14 AM »

[highlight-text]So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

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