Thomas Woods quotes
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“If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.”
-- Thomas WoodsSource : Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (2004). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History”, p.26, Regnery Publishing
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“Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.”
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“Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.”
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“There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that's called Bipartisanship.”
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“The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.”
-- Thomas WoodsSource : Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Kevin R. C. Gutzman (2008). “Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush”, p.92, Crown Forum
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“Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.”
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“Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.”
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“If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.”
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Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.
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“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
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