Category: Quotes

As presented in the Bill Hobby & Tom Keel class on the Texas state budget in the fall of 1993.

There's Architectural, Barber, Chiropractic, Cosmetology,
Professional Surveying, Funeral Service, and Podiatry,
There's Veterinary Medical, Nurse and Public Accountancy,
The Licensor for Nursing Home Administrators, Pharmacy,
There's Real Estate and PUC and Worker's Comp and Insurance
And also Racing and Structural Pest Control and Finance,
Examiners in the Fitting and Dispensing of Hearing Aids,
The Alcoholic Beverage Commish who often conducts raids!

CHORUS:  The Alcoholic Beverage Commish who often conducts raids!
         The Alcoholic Beverage Commish who often conducts raids!
         The Alcoholic Beverage Commish who very often conducts raids!

There's Medical, Vocational Nurse, plus Dental and optometry,
The Registrar for engineers, also Physical Therapy,
Securities, Psychologists, Licensing and Regulation
and Tax Professionals submit to all this tribulation.

CHORUS:  Securities, Psychologists, Licensing and Regulation
         and Tax Professionals submit to all this tribulation.


There's parks and Wildlife, Railroad, Soil and Water Conservation,
The Governor and Commerce, Public Finance, Transportation,
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority,
And Information Resources, the Archives and State Library,
The Veteran's Land Board, General Services, and Treasury,
Plus Housing and Community Affairs, and the Judiciary,
The General Land Office and River Compact Commissioners
and Retirement Systems for both Employees and Teachers!

CHORUS:  Retirement Systems for both Employees and Teachers
         Retirement Systems for both Employees and Teachers
         Retirement Systems for both Employees and Teachers!

There's Water D., State Secretary, and Board for Preservation,
Agriculture, Animal Health, and Resource Conservation,
And thus in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
Are all quite nicely summed up with the good Attorney General!

CHORUS:  And thus in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
         Are all quite nicely summed up with the good Attorney General!

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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