#tate

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ↗

— Max Stirner

#crime #individual #law #own #state

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#change #commitment #money #must #our

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#hell #i #i think #musicians #politicians

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#man #statesmanship

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#am #any #as far as #boat #closely

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#good #itself #others #states #understanding

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#black #caribbean #history #indian #latino

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#does #itself #others #states #understand