"The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits."

-- Kevin D. Williamson

#Government Quotes #Benefits Quotes #Levels Quotes

“A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.”
“Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.”
“I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.”
“The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.”
“What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.”
“I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.”
“It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.”

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