We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.
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Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
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The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by read more
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.
God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.
