Quotes of the Week

We have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
 – Thomas Jefferson

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
– Pericles

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
– Lew Rockwell

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two become a law firm, and three or more become a congress.
– John Adams

People who are forever ready to charge others with “greed” never apply that word to the government.
– Thomas Sowell
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
– Ulysses S. Grant

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
– Montesquieu