'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