Will could tell it like it is!

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.

— Will Rogers

Has GW experienced both of these?

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O'Rourke

We once had those things called rights

Without virtue there is no such thing as a great man; without rights there is no such thing as a great nation, and, one might almost say, no such thing as society, for what is a group of rational and intelligent beings held together solely by force?

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835-1840

Why freedom workes.

The impossibility of any individual or small group conceiving of all the possibilities, let alone evaluating their merits, is the great argument against central governmental planning and against arrangements such as professional monopolies that limit the possibilities of experimentation.

— Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom [1962]