“I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?” GovernmentFormPoliticsPerfectReturnTaxesAddressesPrint Author:Bob Hope
“That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.” PeopleShouldFirstsMayTwoStatesFeelingsBodyLawCertainPoliticsTakenReturnPeriodsMembersDirectElectionBurdenOppressionFormerFixedExecutivesStationsParticipatingJudiciaryVacancyExecutive Power Author:George Mason
“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.” GivingBelieveWarEnoughWisdomJobsPoliticsPayCompanyEconomyOur LivesShareReturnTruth IsPercentCapitalismDollarsDebtMiserableLiberalismEnterpriseClosestCheeseMiceWagesSalaryDividendsFree EnterpriseSerfs Book:Left at the post Source: Left at the post
“If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.” IfsStatesWisdomFormPoliticsUnitedHalfUnited StatesEconomyReturnPercentIncomeLiberalismCapitalistHouseholdConsumptionAnnuals Author:Louis O. Kelso
“My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.” PeopleYearsStillsIdeasReasonMightPoliticalCertainPoliticsTermForgetAliveReturnPeriodsOfficeMassRegardIndependenceGovernorsFixingPublic GoodTerm Limits Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson