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A HUGE thanks to Jim for sending this one. This says it all.
1. Suppose you were an idiot. And
suppose you were a member of Congress,
but then 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 from Paul.
----George Bernard Shaw
4. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on
what to have for dinner.
---James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
5. 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
6. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys.
---P. J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
7. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else.
---Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
8. 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)
9. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
---Will Rogers
10. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free.
---P. J. O'Rourke
11. 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)
12. 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
13. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
---Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
14. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have.
---Thomas Jefferson