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• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
  -- The Best of Will Roge...
• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
  -- Will Roge...
• A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
  It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse form the public treasury....
• Perhaps myself the first, at some expence of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist.
  Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischevous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite....
• No country in history has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
• So this is a very confusing situation, and what makes it even worse is, our standards keep changing.
  Take Playboy magazine. Back in the 1950s, when I started reading it strictly for the articles, Playboy was considered just about the raciest thing around, even though all it ever showed was women's breasts....
• So this is a very confusing situation, and what makes it even worse is, our standards keep changing.
  Take Playboy magazine. Back in the 1950s, when I started reading it strictly for the articles, Playboy was considered just about the raciest thing around, even though all it ever showed was women's breasts....
• Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to have to supply a man with food and then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
  -- Helen Rowland...
• W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic.
  This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like _epixoriambikos_....