Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.P. J. ORourke
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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