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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you
do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
- 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.
-< /B> 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; a 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, a 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' 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, subsi dize 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
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)
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
What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians.
- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)