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Return to a Limited Government, Step 5

March 10, 2010 by rickety  
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The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men ~ Alexander Hamilton

Return to a Limited Government, Step 4

February 27, 2010 by rickety  
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago ~ John Adams

Return to a Limited Government, Step 3

February 24, 2010 by rickety  
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Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything ~ Benjamin Franklin

Return to a Limited Government, Step 2

February 22, 2010 by rickety  
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home ~ James Madison

Return to a Limited Government, Step 1

February 22, 2010 by rickety  
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I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared ~ Thomas Jefferson

Paul on Politics: The Worth of Third Parties

February 1, 2010 by rickety  
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Third parties always decide an election. For that matter, minor groups decide elections. The percentage difference in an election is usually quite close. Consequently, that condition causes the minimal number of voters plus one to decide the election.