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As the saying goes, a government that robs Peter to pay Paul can count on getting Paul’s vote.

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I'd like to live in a world in which happily married gay people have closets full of assault weapons to protect their pot.

Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation aimed at normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.

A socialist is someone who wants politicians to decide who gets what; a "democratic socialist" wants the politicians to at least stand for election first.

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[W]e have, in many ways, the worst political class in our country's history.

Given the failure of the two party establishments, it’s not entirely surprising that young people are looking elsewhere. Their votes are up for grabs, for those who are willing and able to offer something different. For the sake of the country, let’s hope those votes are won by people who are able to offer something different, and constructive, at the same time.

Socialism not as hot as its spokesman (2016)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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