“Treaties are like young girls and roses; they last while they last”-Charles DeGaulle

Reader, suppose you are an idiot; and suppose you are a member of Congress, but I repeat myself-Mark Twain

When asked about his life, the Roman Emperor Semtimius Severus (ruled 103-211 AD), considered the last of the “good Emperors”, is reported to have said: “I have been everywhere and seen everything and it is really not all that much.” I guess even Emperors could get bored.

“nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands…to demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.” Senior Judge of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Learned Hand, the most quoted lower Court Judge by the Supreme Court in History (The Forgotten Man, pp 206)

“I like taxes. They are the price I pay for civilization” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (Ibid, pp 313)