Enjoy these quotes, sad, but fact.
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the
newspaper you are misinformed.
- Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress.... But then I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is
like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
- Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people
in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
- Douglas Casey,
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else.
- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if
it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan (1986)
I don't make jokes... I just watch the government and report the
facts.
- Will Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free!
- P.J. O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as
possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean
politics won't take an interest in you!
- Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is
in session.
- Mark Twain (1866 )
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
- Larry Nevels (2008)
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal: A happy appetite at
one end and no responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the
blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin.
- Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class....save
Congress.
- Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson
Does it sound familiar, Samson,
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