Quotes

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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O‘Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn‘t mean politics won‘t take an interest in you. (***)
Pericles (430 B.C)

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

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(***) Long time American consumer advocate, Ralph Nader reworded that quote from Pericles somewhat and has said:
"If you don't turn on to politics, politics might turn on you----in a very undesirable way."