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Black Horse
03-16-2009, 07:17 AM
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



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



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. -- Anonymous



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

mach_u
03-16-2009, 10:00 AM
Excellent quotes! :bigthumb

05yellowgt
03-16-2009, 12:57 PM
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 big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to
take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson

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