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On Being an Expert

If you want to be an expert at something, start acting like one.
Me
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Simple Explanations Speak Volumes

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Einstein
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Too Much Government

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
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James Madison on Tyranny

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one or a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
James Madison, January 30, 1788
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A Warning Against Redistributionism

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 to 2005
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