Remember these as the elections draw nearer, and see what you're doing...
"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 s tops 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
"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
"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
