Friday, November 7, 2008

food for thought

"America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
- Alexis de Tocqeville, 1805-1859
Sociologist

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

-Edmund Burke, 1729-1797
British statesman

"Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves."
- Benjamin Constant, 1833-1891
Brazilian statesman

"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."
- Thomas Jefferson

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