"History affords us many instances of the..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.”

“Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.”

“There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.”

“The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.”

“When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.”

“In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."”

“Advisers advise, and ministers decide.”

“If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

“Texas has a lot of electrical votes.”