The Last Refuge of Scoundrels

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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. – W. Bourke Cockran

We need to revise the old saying to read, hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. – Milton friedman

Guidelines for Bureaucrat: (1) When in charge ponder. (2) When in trouble delegate. (3) When in doubt mumble. – James H. Boren

In a bureaucratic system, increase in expenditure will be matched by fall in production. – Max Gammon

Issues are the last refuges of scoundrels. – Edmund G. Brown, Jr.

It is because we put up with bad things that hotelkeepers continue to give them to us. – Anthony Trollope

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. – Michael Main

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