1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose
you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself
............Mark Twain
2) 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
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can
always depend on the support of Paul.
.............George Bernard Shaw
4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to
his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
............G. Gordon Liddy
5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves
and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
............James Bovard, Civil Libertarian
(1994)
6) 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 Univ.
7) Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
...............P.J. O'Rourke, Civil
Libertarian
8) Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
..........Frederic Bastiat, French
Economist (1801-1850)
9) 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)
10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government
and report the facts.
.............Will Rogers
11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait
until you see what it costs when it's free.
.........P.J. O'Rourke
12) 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)
13) 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.)
14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe
while the legislature is in session.
...........Mark Twain (1866)
15) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does
it.
...........Unknown
16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal,
with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
...........Ronald Reagan
17) 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
18) The only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
..........Mark Twain
19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
...........Herbert Spencer, English
Philosopher (1820-1903)
20) There is no distinctly native American criminal
class ... save Congress.
...........Mark Twain
21) What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians.
..........Edward Langley, Artist (1928
- 1995)
22) A government big enough to give you everything
you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
..........Thomas Jefferson
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