The
Great Truths about government
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Our
problems today have been talked about for many years... by many
people.
1. In
my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a
shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. -- John
Adams
2. If
you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the
newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain
3.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
4. 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
5. A
government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
6. 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
7.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting
on what to have for dinner. --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8.
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people
in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Case,
Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University.
9.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French
economist(1801-1850)
11.
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)
12. I
don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-- Will Rogers
13.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free! -- P. J. O'Rourke
14.
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)
15.
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.)
16.
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is
in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
17.
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous
18.
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald
Reagan
19.
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
20.
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
21.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher
(1820-1903)
22.
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress.
-- Mark Twain
23.
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians--Edward
Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A
government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson
25.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
office. -- Aesop
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