TIMELY QUOTES

With local elections fast approaching we feel that it is "timely" to forward a couple of quotes. We hope that you will take the time out of your busy day to cast your vote and that, as you do, you will have these thoughts in mind and will take a moment to reflect on America's founding principles.
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"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." ---Thomas Jefferson
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"The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise."
---Mark Twain
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Gem of the week:
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well