Government Solutions
cur-mudg-eon (cur-muj’un), n. [origin unknown] 1. archaic: a crusty, ill-tempered, churlish old man. 2. modern: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner.
“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
— Otto von Bismark
“When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn’t realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.”
— Harold Coffin
“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”
— Milton Friedman
“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature … If the next centennial does not find us a great nation…it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
— James Garfield
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
— C.L. Lewis
“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
— Ronald Reagan
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
— Will Rogers
