"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
-- Thomas Jefferson --
"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it."
-- John Adams --
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
-- George Washington --
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
-- Thomas Jefferson --
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
-- Roman historian Plutarch --
"[I]f industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out."
-- James Madison --
"Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands."
-- Thomas Jefferson --
"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."
-- John F. Kennedy --
"What has one who is not able to govern himself to do with governing others?"
-- Confucius --
"The power to tax is the power to destroy."
-- Chief Justice John Marshall --
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
-- Benjamin Franklin --
-- Thomas Jefferson --
"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it."
-- John Adams --
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
-- George Washington --
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
-- Thomas Jefferson --
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
-- Roman historian Plutarch --
"[I]f industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out."
-- James Madison --
"Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands."
-- Thomas Jefferson --
"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."
-- John F. Kennedy --
"What has one who is not able to govern himself to do with governing others?"
-- Confucius --
"The power to tax is the power to destroy."
-- Chief Justice John Marshall --
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
-- Benjamin Franklin --
Our current batch of elected leaders is woefully inadequate, as each one of these quotes unequivocally demonstrates. That's probably why we're in this mess now.
There's my two cents.
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