Edwin Taylor Jr.:  

he spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."~Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791 "It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow."~Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 62, 1788 "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."~George Washington "Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”~Milton Friedman “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”~Milton Friedman “Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.”~Milton Friedman "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."~Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its ...being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." ~ Frédéric Bastiat (The Law) "History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."~James Madison".