The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. -- Plato

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire

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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence... -- Thomas Paine

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Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. -- Thomas Paine

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Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice. -- Thomas Paine

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It follows than as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
-- President George Washington

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And however our eyes may be dazzled with snow, or our ears deceived by sound; however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our understanding, the simple voice of nature and of reason will say, it is right. -- Thomas Paine

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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
-- Dwight David Eisenhower