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“The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation.”

Poverty Drug Program Standing Army Police Court Criminals Saving Budgets Agency Pollution Enforcement Savings Calculations Elimination Pollution Control

Book:The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

Source: The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

“Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.”

Men Age Young Wealth Poverty Learning Comfort Standing Riches Old Age Young Man Serving Ornaments

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.”

Knows Want Kind Persons Would Be Wish Poverty Bears Capable Standing Abuse Etc Saying No Furious Told You So

Author:Soren Kierkegaard