"I never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in." -Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) Author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Booker.T..Washington.Quote.71BC
"We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation." -Donald Alexander IRS Director 1975? Source: before Congress ~1975
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Donald.Alexander.Quote.1F38
"Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people." -George Mason (1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington Source: The Papers of George Mason, 1052 (Robert A. Rutland Ed., 1970)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Mason.Quote.BBDA
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