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| Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. (Unknown) |
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| Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. (Herman Wouk) |
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| It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Voltaire) |
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| Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. (Mark Twain) |
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| Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. (Richard M. Nixon) |
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| There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. (Will Rogers) |
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| This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. (Will Rogers) |
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| You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. (John Kenneth Galbraith) |
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| I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. (Victor Hugo) |
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| I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. (Will Rogers Saturday Review Aug. 25 1962) |
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| Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. (Lichty and Wagner) |
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| Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. (H. L. Mencken) |
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| The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. (Will Rogers Illiterate Digest) |
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| It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. (Mark Twain) |
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| I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. (H. L. Mencken) |
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| Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. (Laurence J. Peter) |
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| Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. (Charles Peters) |
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| The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. (Eugene McCarthy Time magazine Feb. 12 1979) |
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| Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. (Milton Friedman) |
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| The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. (John Maynard Keynes) |
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| For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. (Bob Wells) |
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| Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. (Tom Robbins) |
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| He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." (H. E. Martz) |
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