Friday, November 21, 2008

Thank you Vaudine at Free Republic dot com

'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

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