D Peter Maus wrote:

(many valid points clipped)

* The Democrats are the party that says government will make you
smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.
Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then
they get elected and prove it.

* Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and
car keys to teenage boys.

* Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.



I also like H.L. Mencken. (1880-1956)

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it
is largely a waste of time.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American
public.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it
would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying
to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -
and both commonly succeed, and are right.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat,
plausible, and wrong.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and
hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of
common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever
ineligible for public office.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious
day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last
and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven
brag about it to persons who will never get there.

“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They
have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of
government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and
pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them.
Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is
made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a
broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale
of stolen goods.”

H. L. Mencken

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