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“Spending by government currently amounts to about 45 percent of national income. By that test, government owns 45 percent of the means of production that produce the national income. The U.S. is now 45 percent socialist.”

Mean Government Produce Amount Percent Tests Productions Spending Income Socialist

Author:Milton Friedman

“Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.”

People Wells Government Known Tests Former Latter Feds Infallible Bad Government

Book:The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham

Source: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham

“The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however, by the mere existence of some secular purpose, however dominated by religious purposes... The proper inquiry under the purpose prong of Lemon, I submit, is whether the government intends to convey a message of endorsement or disapproval of religion.”

Government Purpose Religious Existence Atheism Activity Messages Tests Mere Satisfied Submit Secular Requirements Inquiry Lemons Endorsements Disapproval

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.”

Want Needs Should Government Military Should Have Tests Missions Backgrounds Pilots Astronaut Specialists Military Experience

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.”

Government Politics Pay Wonder Democracy Jokes Tests Enormous Noses Inconvenience

Author:Frank Zappa