A few Independence day quotes

Government is the great fiction

through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else

Frederic Bastiat

that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury


From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates
who promise the most benefits…with the result that every democracy
will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy…


…nations always progressed through the following sequence


From bondage to spiritual faith
from spiritual faith to great courage
from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance
from abundance to complacency
from complacency to apathy
from apathy to dependence
from dependence back into bondage


Unknown

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts

foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values

For a nation afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood

…is a nation afraid of its people

John F Kennedy

Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act


George Orwell

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe

if the people tolerate the growth of private power

to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself

That, in essence, is fascism

ownership of government by an individual

by a group or by any other controlling power

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation
the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators


P J O'Rourke

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change

and a greater evil than this

The conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder

Frederic Bastiat

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure
when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them


Patrick Henry

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul

can always depend on the support of Paul

George Bernard Shaw

If private corporations published balance sheets
the way the federal government does
their leaders would go to jail


David M Walker
Former United States Comptroller General

If mold continues to multiply after eating half a piece of cheese

what happens when demand exceeds supply?

If we’re the mold and Earth is the cheese
how many need and/or want how much
where is half way, who’s got what’s left, who gets cut off when
who will compete with who for what’s left and how is who most likely to win?

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover