Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Words of Wisdom

 “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.” – Thomas Jefferson

 “I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson

 “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.  The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”  - Thomas Jefferson

 “Most bad government has grown out of too much government.” - Thomas Jefferson.

 “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” - James Madison

 America will never be destroyed from the outside.  If we falter and lose out freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln

 “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” - Mark Twain

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.“ - Mark Twain

We have the best government that money can buy.Mark Twain

No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain

“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.- Mark Twain

“Once a man wants to hold Public Office, he is absolutely no good for honest work.”  - Will Rogers

 A lobbyist is a person that is supposed to help a politician make up his mind—not only help him but pay him.” - Will Rogers

 “It must be nice to belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.” - Will Rogers

 “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein

 “Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” - Nikita Khrushchev 

“Government is not the solution to the problem: Government is the problem.” – Ronald Reagan Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

         From the Founding Fathers to Donald Trump, it was clear the greatest threat to the survival of this great republic was a large federal government. 

       When Donald Trump mentioned draining the swamp it scared all the Washington DC establishment of both parties and all the bureaucrats. They could lose their power. 

        When are we going to take the power away from DC and give it back to the people?

 

Business Fits by Terry Oliver Lee is available on Amazon as an e-book or a paperback.     http://BusinessFits.com

1 comment:

  1. That's quite a collection of negative statements for the start of holiday week. Maybe next week's blog will offer some encouragement for the New Year or suggest what country we should emigrate to.

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