ehenry
Commander
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2002
- Messages
- 2,393
1) Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself .. Mark Twain <br /> <br />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 <br /> <br />3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul ... George Bernard Shaw <br /> <br />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 <br /> <br />5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner ... James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) <br /> <br />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 <br /> <br />7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys ... P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian <br /> <br />8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else .. Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850) (One of the last SMART Frenchmen.) <br /> <br />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) <br /> <br />10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts... Will Rogers <br /> <br />11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free ... P.J. O'Rourke <br /> <br />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) <br /> <br />13) 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) (HOW TRUE, HOW TRUE) <br /> <br />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.) <br /> <br />15) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session ... Mark Twain (1866) <br /> <br />16) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it ... Unknown <br /> <br />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 <br /> <br />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 (I knew there was a reason I liked this man.) <br /> <br />19) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin .. Mark Twain <br /> <br />20) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is tofill the world with fools ... Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) <br /> <br />21) There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress... Mark Twain <br /> <br />22) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians ... Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995) <br /> <br />23) A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have ... Thomas Jefferson, Second President of the United States of America
