"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide." -John Adams
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -President Gerald Ford, August 12, 1974
"A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking." -James Madison
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." -Thomas Paine
"The entire income tax system was created by Karl Marx."
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government and I'm here to help."
"The Taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress..."
"If we ever forget that we are one nation under God then we will be one nation gone under."
"We have every right to dream heroic dreams, and after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans." - Ronald Reagan
