Reflections of Great Minds 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 their 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) If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a
liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a
conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're
a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere,
you're an extremist. ......Joseph Sobran, Former Editor of the
National Review (1995)

13) 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)

14) 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.)

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


16) Talk is cheap . except when Congress does it. ......Unknown

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

18) 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

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

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

21) There is no distinctly native American criminal class .... save
Congress. ......Mark Twain

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

23) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have. ........Thomas Jefferson,
Founding Father and American Revolutionary