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Good government is no substitute for self-government
Good government is no substitute for self-government
The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They read more
The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may
blunder or plunder.
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may
blunder or plunder.
Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty
universe.
Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty
universe.
A government of laws, and not of men.
A government of laws, and not of men.
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious read more
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
