"[Tyrannical] power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?" -- Alexis de Tocqueville [Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859) French historian
"But we have to [first] pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, .. ." -- Nancy Pelosi
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"But we have to [first] pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, .. ." -- Nancy Pelosi
"You lie!" -- Joe Wilson
".. may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment," The New York Times reported.
".. a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia.” -- John Boehner
Obama Embraces 'Death Panel' Concept in Medicare Rule -- NewsMax
o'Rumpelstiltskin, o'so yesterday, o'Soylent Green, o'Spiritus Raptor, o'one trick pony, o'yesterday's news, ...
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