“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”

        — Jean Baptiste Colbert

“Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.”

        — Unknown

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

        — Werner Finck

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

        — Clay Shirky, South by Southwest 2010

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

        — Plato

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

        — Barnett Cocks

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

        — Werner Finck

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

        — Werner Finck

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”

        — Jean Baptiste Colbert

“Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.”

        — Unknown

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

        — Barnett Cocks

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

        — Clay Shirky, South by Southwest 2010

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

        — Carl Sagan

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

        — Barnett Cocks

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

        — Carl Sagan

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

        — Clay Shirky, South by Southwest 2010

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

        — Barnett Cocks