> > QUOTABLE QUOTES REGARDING GOVERNMENT
> >
> > "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
> >
> > 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 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, 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
> >
> > 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 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 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
> >
> > "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
> >
> > 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 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, 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
> >
> > 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 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 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