Acton Republican Town Committee

 The difference between a republic and a "people's republic" is a lot like the difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

“Otherwise and usefully employed, as, for example, upon habitations and hearthstones, works of common utility, means of national defense, that amount of labor might have raised the standard of common living in Egypt to a higher plane, besides insuring Egyptian civilization a longer competitive life. But once it had been spent on a pyramid to immortalize the name of Pharaoh it was spent forever.”

"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causus."

(Happy the man who has learned the causes of things)