Quote by Alan Keyes
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that ha

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. – Alan Keyes

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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom. – Alan Keyes

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Freedom
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Its about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. – Alan Keyes

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We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I dont – that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. Its insane and its unsustainable. – Marco Rubio

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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clintons, or Abraham Lincolns? – Thomas Frank

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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. – John Maynard Keynes

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The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. – Milton Friedman

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I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. Im phobic about it. So when Im writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me. – Anthony Horowitz

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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. – Peter De Vries

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