Liberty Quotes

"We used to be a free people. Now we are hedged in by millions of laws. Harassed by a plague of opportunistic lawyers. Harmed by regulations meant for our protection. Unnecessarily taxed to pay for a suffocating bureaucracy. Drowning in petty paperwork. Stifled by “rights” that rarely benefit anyone." -Joan Beck Columnist Source: Houston Chronicle, February 6, 1995
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"It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich." -Paul Harvey [Paul Harvey Aurandt] (1918-2009) American radio broadcaster Source: The Biggest Tax You Pay, Conservative Chronicle, November 8, 1995
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Paul.Harvey.Quote.408F

"Today, of course, the redistributive powers of Congress are everywhere -- except in the Constitution. The result is the feeding frenzy that is modern Washington, the Hobbesian war of all against all as each tries to get his share and more of the common pot the tax system fills. ... It is unseemly and wrong. More than that, it is unconstitutional, whatever the slim and cowed majority on the New Deal Court may have said." -Roger Pilon Vice President for Legal Affairs for the Cato Institute Source: Restoring Constitutional Government, Cato’s Letter #9, P. 10, Published By The Cato Institute (1995)
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