“When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state.” -Thomas Jefferson
Category: Government
Wasting The Labor of The People
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson
Equal Opportunity versus Equal Outcome
“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.” -Friedrich Hayek
Sinful And Tyrannical
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson
A Government of Incompetent Men
“There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.” – Ludwig von Mises
The Definition of Tyranny
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced as the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison
A Species of Legalized Larceny
“The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.” – Calvin Coolidge
Under the Dark Veil of Secrecy
“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” – Patrick Henry
And Still They Continue to Lie
“We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
When Plunder Becomes a Way of Life
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Frederic Bastiat