"The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less."

-- Thomas Paine

#Years Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Debt Quotes

“I'm disappointed. I played my heart out and it didn't work.”
“But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.”
“There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.”
“It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.”
“They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.”
“Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.”
“Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone”
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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