Saturday, June 16, 2007

 

Government Truisms

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

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
of money from poor people in rich countries
to rich people in poor countries.
- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown Univ.

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 Econo mist (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 healt! h 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 me an 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 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 only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
- Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the < BR>&g t; 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)

A government big enough to give you everything you
want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson

"Government is not the solution to our problem;
government is the problem.if no one among us is
capable of governing himself, then who among us
has the capacity to govern so! meone e lse?"
- Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, 1/20/1981

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