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You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.
Governments never learn. Only people learn.