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“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
Quote by -Vladimir Lenin
“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel”
Quote by -Vladimir Lenin
At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
Quote by -Ibn Khaldun
"I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular administration of justice, in which the people do not feel themselves secure in the possession of their property, in which the faith of contracts is not supported by law, and in which the authority of the state is not supposed to be regularly employed in enforcing the payment of debts from all those who are able to pay. Commerce and manufactures, in
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“A direct tax upon the wages of labour, therefore, though the labourer might perhaps pay it out of his hand, could not properly be said to be even advanced by him, at least if the demand for labour and the average price of provisions remained the same after the tax as before it. In all such cases, not only the tax but something more than the tax would in reality be advanced by the person who immediately employed him.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“But this proportion must in every nation be regulated by two different circumstances: first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Every such regulation introduces some degree of real disorder into the constitution of the state, which it will be difficult afterwards to cure without occasioning another disorder.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The great privilege of the Americans does not simply consist in their being more enlightened than other nations, but in their being able to repair the faults they may commit.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Consequently, in the United States the law favors those classes which are most interested in evading it elsewhere.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science-fiction writers are its court jesters.
Quote by -William Gibson
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
Quote by -Tony Benn
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan's needs and then act together to meet them.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams
The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.
Quote by -Elliott Abrams