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“Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.”

People Needs Children Government Political Three Politics Groups Trust Politician Thieves Supervision Spending Other People's Money

Author:Dick Armey

“A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.”

Giving States Government Purpose Reading President United United States Records Horse Congress Thieves Senators Foreigners

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.”

Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896

“Government is a gang of thieves writ large.”

Government Thieves Gang

Author:Murray Rothbard