“Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.”

— P.J. O’Rourke

“Conservatives want to be your daddy. Liberals want to be your mommy. Libertarians want to treat adults like adults.”

–David Boaz of the Cato Institute in a tweet to the Cato On Campus twitter feed

“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned–this is the sum of good government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.”

— Thomas Paine

“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

I thought this quote was apropos, given my post from yesterday.