"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away."
---Ronald Reagan
"The care of human life and happiness. . . is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
---Thomas Jefferson, "To the Republican Citizens of Washington County Maryland," March 31, 1809
"The functions of government must be readjusted from time to time to restrain the strong and protect the weak. That is the preservation of liberty itself."
---Herbert Hoover, September 17, 1935
"The government goes on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity."
---Winston Churchill, speech, November 12, 1936
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
William F. Buckley, Jr.
"If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."
---Gerald Ford
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
---Voltaire
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
---Thomas Jefferson
"Reflect on the above."
Richard W. Gorski, M.D., McHenry County Advocate, June 17, 2008
Republican Party Executive Committee Calls on Republican-Dominated County
Board Not to Raise Property Taxes, To Fulfill Last Year’s Promise to Cut
Taxes
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From the McHenry County Republican Party Executive Committee: Resolution
Opposing the Proposed McHenry County Property Tax Levy Increase WHEREAS,
the McH...
3 hours ago
2 comments:
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), Irish politician and judge. And here we are, 200 years later, and it is just as important.
AMEN!
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