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- The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. Hunter S. Thompson
- The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you. P.J. O'Rourke
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Albert Einstein
- The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon’s conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination. Dean Baker
- What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. H. L. Mencken
- In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. Voltaire
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