1) 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.)
2) 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)
3) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have.......Thomas Jefferson4) Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else..........Frederic Bastiat, French Economist(1801-1850)
5) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But then I repeat myself.........Mark Twain
6) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin......Mark Twain
7) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is
in session...Mark Twain (1866)
8) 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
9) 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
10) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can
always depend on the support of Paul..............George Bernard Shaw
11) Government's view of the economy could be summed upin 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)
12) 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
13) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting
on what to have for dinner.............James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
14) 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
15) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys................P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
16) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what
it costs when it's free.......P.J. O'Rourke
17) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
.......Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
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