"In general, the art of government consists..." - Quote by Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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“We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.”
“Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.”
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“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”
“Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons”
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“I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.”
“Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.”
“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.”