Quotations of the day: William Taft and the NY Times

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Quotations of the day: William Taft and the NY Times
Mark J. Perry | December 7, 2013, 8:46 pm
1. “No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”

~William Howard Taft referring to the temperance movement of the early 1900s that was a major force in America’s First War on Drugs Peaceful Americans Who Chose to Use Intoxicants Not Currently Approved of by the Government, Who Will Lock Users Up in Cages if Caught.

2. “Once men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others they are not easily cured of it.”

~The NY Times editorializing in 1909 against the federal income tax.

MP: Unfortunately, our tolerance of: a) busybodies telling other people how to behave, and b) the practice of theft by taxation and civil forfeiture, has increased over the last 100 years, and the War on Drugs has contributed to both forms of despicable behavior."