The budget should be balanced,
the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced,
the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled,
and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed
lest Rome become bankrupt.

People must again learn to work,
instead of living on public assistance.

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Cicero , 55 BC

A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is big enough to take away everything you have

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Thomas Jefferson

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...
for support rather than illumination

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Andrew Lang
(1844-1912)