“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
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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