”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, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
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
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, with 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)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to
take everything you have.
   -Thomas Jefferson

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