.....so the government should be in charge of your schools.
What's that ?...... Oh, the government has been running the schools for decades...... Well this is what you get for not studying hard enough.
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It's time to IPO the U.S. Postal Service
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"The people are Sovereign. ... at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people;
and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects... with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty." -- John Jay
(1745-1829) first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, First President of the United States - preceding George Washington,
one of three men most responsible for the US Constitution
Source: Chisholm v. Georgia, (US) 2 Dall 419, 454, 1 L Ed 440, 455 @Dall 1793 pp471-472
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0002_0419_ZS.html
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Jay.Quote.18D9
"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527) Italian Statesman and Political Philosopher
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Niccolo.Machiavelli.Quote.3483
"The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ...
- To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the
nation, and its foreign and federal relations ...
- The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and
administration of what concerns the State generally.
- The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests
within itself.
It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best." -- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.6782
"By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property." -- Cato
John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)
Source: Letter 62 (1722) of Cato's Letters (1720-1723), quoted by Ronald Hamowy, "Cato's Letters, John Locke, and the Republican Paradigm", in Edward J. Harpham (Ed.), John Locke's Two Treatises of Government: New Interpretations (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992), p. 157.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Cato.Quote.5EED
"A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom." -- Fredrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Fredrich.August.von.Hayek.Quote.DEAB
"It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve." -- Henry George
(1839-1897) American poliical economist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.George.Quote.3F9B
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The Indians asked their Chief in autumn, if the winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing an answer, the chief replies that the winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared. Being a good leader, he went to his office and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?"
The man on the phone responded, "This winter was going to be quite cold indeed."
The Chief went back to speed up his people, to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a VERY cold winter?"
"Yes", the man replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."
The Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go and find every scrap of wood they can find.Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again: "Are you absol utely sure, that the winter is going to be very cold?"
"Absolutely" the man replies, "Even the Indians are collecting wood like crazy!"
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