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Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you’re given, The less you lead, the more you’re driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep,
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Kin Hubbard The devil will be having his finger in what we call our duties as well as our sins. George Eliot, Adam Bede In economically benevolent conditions... something we call democracy may even emerge to disguise the realities of power. John Keegan, A History of Warfare
And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take
If the tax-collector hasn’t got it before I wake. Ogden Nash, “One From One Leaves Two”
”Scientific socialism”...would hold especial attraction for intellectuals by promising to replace spontaneous and messy life with a rational order of which they would be the interpreters and mentors. Harvard History Professor Richard Pipes, Communism The enthusiasm of the people is very fine and looks well in print; but I have never known it produce anything but confusion... Trust nothing to the enthusiasm of the people. The Duke of Wellington, letter to Lord Bentinck Till we become divine we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for a change we sink to something lower. Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle. John Adams, letter to Benjamin Rush
I don’t belong to an organized political party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. Attributed (wrongly) to 18th century Scottish jurist and historian Alexander Tytler, but in accord with Tytler’s skepticism about democratic government. To many politicians cost is the benefit... it means more money to hand out. Randal O’Toole, Cato Institute Scholar
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