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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one
end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
If eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, I learned a lot - I went down to Latin America to find out from them
and their views. You\'d be surprised. They\'re all individual countries.
Ronald Reagan

Founding Fathers Quotes

Besides, to lay and collect internal taxes in this extensive country must require a great number of congressional ordinances,
immediately operation upon the body of the people; these must continually interfere with the state laws and thereby produce
disorder and general dissatisfaction till the one system of laws or the other, operating upon the same subjects, shall be
abolished.
Federal Farmer, Antifederalist Letter, October 10, 1787