Opinions on Government

1. *We 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

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

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

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 from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries.
--Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

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, Editor of the National Review at one time (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 are 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