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. --Mark Twain