I was amazed at how many of these quotes are applicable to today in the US.
\"The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.\" -- Alexis de Tocqueville
WOW sound familiar?
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. -- Ben Franklin
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. -- Tom Paine
I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts. -- Ronald Reagan
this one I thought was funny
Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July. Democrats believe every day is April 15th -- Ronald Reagan
\"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.\"
Calvin Coolidge
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
William F. Buckley
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union -- like public housing in the United States -- look decrepit within a year or two of their construction... -- Milton Friedman
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. -- Woodrow Wilson
I've heard/read a couple of those before.
