Reflections 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 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

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

7)
 Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke

8)
 Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

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

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)
 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

13)
 Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean
politics won’t take an interest in you. – Pericles

14)  No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain

15)  Talk is cheap … except when Congress does it. – Unknown

16)
 The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald
Reagan

17)  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

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

19)
 The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer

20)  There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress. – Mark Twain

21)  What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. – Edward Langley

22)
 A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson