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Reflections on Government From Great Minds
1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself.-- Mark Twain
2) 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
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul.-- George Bernard Shaw
4) 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
5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting
on what to have for dinner.-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
6) 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)
7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and
car keys to teenage boys.-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
8) Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else.-- Frederic Bastiat, French
Economist (1801-1850)
9) 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)
10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the
facts.--
Will Rogers
11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what
it costs when it's free.-- P.J. O'Rourke
12) 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, former Editor of the National Review (1995)
13) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money
as possible from some of the citizens to give to others.-- Voltaire
(1764)
14) 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.)
15) No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature
is in session.-- Mark Twain (1866)
16) Talk is cheap except when Congress does it.-- (Unknown)
17) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald
Reagan
18) 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
19) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin.-- Mark Twain
20) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools.-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher
(1820-1903)
21) There is no distinctly native American criminal class save
Congress.--
Mark Twain
22) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
23) Politics is the art of satisfying the irritated without irritating
the satisfied-- Barry Jones
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