Sage wisdom

• A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

  --Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President (1743-1826)

• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

  --Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

• A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

  --George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)