Monday, November 10, 2008

Quotable Quotes from the Past

'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



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:

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)



AND THE BEST ONE.......

A government big enough to give you everything you want,

is strong enough to take everything you have.

-Thomas Jefferson

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