P.J. O’Rourke Quote – Legislation

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” – P.J. O’Rourke
Read more“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” – P.J. O’Rourke
Read more“For, as wolves and tigers gorge themselves with flesh and lick their gory chops, so do nations gorge themselves with human victims, not in detail, but in masses, by wholesale.” – Henry C. Wright
Read more“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.” – George Burns
Read more“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” – Charles de Gaulle
Read more“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity.” – Irving Kristol
Read more“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?” – Mahatma Gandhi
Read more“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read more“Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug-enforcement and drug-treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depend on finding more and more people to arrest and “treat”? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?” – Dr. Fred Oerther
Read more“Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus — the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines,… but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always […]
Read more“Throw a few chairmen of the board in jail for polluting the air and water, and you’ll see pollution disappear quite rapidly…. You would also probably see some pretty drastic prison reforms.” – Fortney H. “Pete” Stark
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