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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”

David Lloyd George

“There are two distinct classes of men – those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.”

Thomas Paine

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”

C.P. Snow

“You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Politics and crime are the same thing.”

Michael Corleone

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

Frank Zappa

“It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.”

Stefan Molyneux

“Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.”

Walter E. Williams

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

Groucho Marx

The Worst People

Guest Post by The Zman

If you read Donald Kagan’s account of the The Peloponnesian War, the politicians of Athenian democracy come in for some rough treatment for their dishonestly, stupidity and fecklessness. Kagan is especially tough on Alcibiades, who he mostly blames for the disastrous Sicilian Expedition. Whether that is fair or not is debatable, but Kagan’s description of Alcibiades as a duplicitous and egotistical politician, with a penchant for snapping penises off of statuary, strikes a chord with anyone who follows politics today.

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