Alan Bock Quotes

To bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn … seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime.
ALAN BOCK

Acre Assign Bribe Bushel Custom Farmer High Plant Quality Regime Salary Save Seven Sovereign Week Wheat
The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history.
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Call Declaration Document History Human Independence Justice Revolution
The median family of four … paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That’s enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce’s office.
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Civilization Commerce Enough Men Officer Pay Secretary Years
Invaluable….the best one-stop source I’ve seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.
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Actual Analysis Intelligent Invaluable Official Seen Source Stop Suffuse
If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.
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Hemp Most Outlaw Planet Stand Still
In that it placed the individual person first in the political scheme of things and made the legitimacy of governments and ruling classes contingent on their success at preserving individual rights.
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Class Contingent Government Individual Legitimacy Made Perceive Place Political Right Success Thing
Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper.
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Been Cut Down Forest Half Make Paper Since World Year

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