Truisms

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Reflections on Government

1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

2) 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

3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw

4) 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

5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

6) 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

7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

9) 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)

10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers

11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. -- P.J. O'Rourke

12) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)

13) 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.)

14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)

15) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it. -- Unknown

16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan

17) 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

18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain

19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress. -- Mark Twain

21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

22) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson


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