There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable. They still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.
P. J. O'RourkeThe founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.
P. J. O'RourkePeople who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
P. J. O'RourkeHumans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke