'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, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

 

 

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,  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.

   -Unknown

 

 

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal,  with a happy

appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

   -Ronald Reagan

 

 

The  only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the  

taxidermist leaves the skin.

- Mark Twain

 

 

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