We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
—Winston Churchill
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Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.
—Thor Heyerdahl
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Hillary Clinton still has a security clearance.
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State interference is an evil, where it cannot be shown to be a good.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence “democracy”, and the other “tyranny”.
—Karl Popper
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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
—Andrew Jackson
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I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
—Milton Friedman
