AGELESS WIT AND OBSERVATIONS
'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 stand   
   ing 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.  -Unknown

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