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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults read more
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
 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. 
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
 Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever 
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor read more 
 Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever 
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, 
decided among men. A resolution was passed without one 
dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right 
ought to be, free and independent States. 
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the read more
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
 So then because some towns in England are not represented, 
America is to have no representative at all. They read more 
 So then because some towns in England are not represented, 
America is to have no representative at all. They are "our 
children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a 
stone.