- 1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion
that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm,
and three or more, is a congress
- -- John Adams
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- 2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed,
if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
- -- Mark Twain
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- 3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a
member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
- -- Mark Twain
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- 4. 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
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- 5. A government, which robs Peter to pay Paul, can
always depend on the support of Paul.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
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- 6. 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
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- 7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and
a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
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- 8. 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
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- 9.. Giving money and power to government is like giving
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
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- 10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
- -- Frederic Bastiat, French, Economist (1801-1850)
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- 11. 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)
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- 12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and
report the facts.
- -- Will Rogers
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- 13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until
you see what it costs when it's free!
- -- P.J. O'Rourke
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- 14. In general, the art of government consist of
taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give
to the other.
- -- Voltaire (1764)
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- 15. 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..)
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- 16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while
the legislature is in session.
- -- Mark Twain (1866)
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- 17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
- -- Anonymous
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- 18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal,
with a happy appetite at one end, and no responsibility at the other.
- -- Ronald Reagan
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- 19. 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
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- 20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist
is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
- -- Mark Twain
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- 21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects
of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
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- 22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save
Congress..
- -- Mark Twain
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- 23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
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- 24. A government big enough to give you everything
you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- -- Thomas Jefferson
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