Truths
- Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain
- We 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
- 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
- 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 from poor people in
rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
--Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U.(1992)
- 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
- If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a
liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a
conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere,
you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene
anywhere, you're an extremist.
--Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time
(1995)
- In general, the art of government consists in 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 are 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 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 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
- The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that
the taxidermist leaves the skin.
--Mark Twain
[ Author Unknown -- from 'Colorado Comments' ]
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