More Quotes to Waken the Brain

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. - Alexander Hamilton

The member (of Congress) who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world. - Robert Novak

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy... - Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scottish lawyer and writer, 1770


...Mr. Speaker, how can America be bankrupt? There are airport taxes, highway taxes, excise taxes, estate taxes, gas taxes, property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, luxury taxes, nanny taxes, old taxes, new taxes, hidden taxes, inheritance taxes; there is even now a tax called a sin tax. I say to my colleagues, no wonder the American people are taxed off...
...The truth is that Congress as a Congress that taxes everything ultimately will tax freedom and will not balance anything. What is next? A budget tax? Is it any wonder that the American people are saying, kiss my taxes...?
...Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. I yield back the balance of my taxes... Jim Traficant

I fear for our nation. Nearly half of our people receive some kind of government subsidy. We have grown weak from too much affluence & too little adversity. I fear that soon we will not be able to defend our country. We have debased our currency to the point that even the most loyal citizen no longer trusts it.- A Roman Senator in A.D. 63

We have fifty million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments – Unknown Author