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Title: Observations on Government
Post by: Clive on July 20, 2009, 20:11
 1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,
 two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
 
-- John Adams
 
 
 
2.   If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
 
-- Mark Twain
 
 
 
3.   Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
 
But then I repeat myself.
 
-- Mark Twain
 

 
 
4.   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
 

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

 
 
6.   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
 

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

 
 
8. 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
 

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

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

 
 
11.   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)
 

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

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

 
 
14.   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)
 

 
 
15. 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.)
 

 
 
16.   No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

-- Mark Twain (1866)
 

 
 
17.   Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it.
 
-- Anonymous
 

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

 
 
19.   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
 

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

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

 
 
  22.  There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress.
 
-- Mark Twain
 

 
 
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
 

 
 
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough
 to take everything you have.
 
-- Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Title: Re: Observations on Government
Post by: GillE on July 20, 2009, 20:16
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Title: Re: Observations on Government
Post by: Simon on July 20, 2009, 20:51
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Title: Re: Observations on Government
Post by: Rik on July 21, 2009, 10:29
Brilliant.  :thumbs:
Title: Re: Observations on Government
Post by: mistybear on July 30, 2009, 14:13
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