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“Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.”

Country Government Used Havens Benefits Dues Britain Goods Other Countries Unemployment Imports

Author:Eamon de Valera

“Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.”

Ifs Persons Home Government Process Car Accounts Property Hearing Protection Dues Libertarian Boat Agents Furniture Resisting Irs Bank Accounts Due Process

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.”

“A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.”

Hard Seems Government Individual Pay Debt Dues Good Times Borrowing Handy

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.”

Government Process Dues Due Process

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.”

People Men Body Government Found Causes Common Pay Taxes Presses Notion Credit Dues Administration Diversion Carrying On

Author:Gertrude Stein

“The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions.”

Men Stills Government Pay Feminism Husband Labor Unions Dues Accomplished Substitutes Taxpayers Labor Union

Author:Warren Farrell

“If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church”

Ifs Government Church Influence Dues Soviet

Book:Man's Peril, 1954-55

Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55

“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”

Way Reason Light Government Lying Passion Subjects Design Prejudice Dues Consideration Remove Rhetoric

Book:A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies