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“We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs fund...”
“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love...”
“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace...”
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”
“We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.”
“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauc...”
“To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
“All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect...”
“The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.”
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.”
“I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.”
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.”
“Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.”
“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritan...”
“A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
