Government Necessity

...we could lose our congress, our president and our general staff and nothing much would have happened.  We would go right on.  In fact, we might be better for it...

John Steinbeck, The Log From the Sea of Cortez, 1951

Free Order

The more freedom in self organization the more order.

Erich Jantsch (1980)

Payment and Cost

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Color of Mind

Once upon another time
He made my mind a different color

Neal Morse (Lifeline, 2008)

Innocent Deaths

We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (2010)

Problem with Socialism is...

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

Margaret Thatcher (Feb 5th, 1976)

common paraphrased version is:

"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."