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 government.
John Adams
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the
newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
government. But then I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.
P...J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live
at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French
economist(1801-1850)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs
when it's free!
P...J. O'Rourke
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)
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.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session.
Mark Twain (1866)
Talk is cheap...except when government does it.
Anonymous
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at
one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist
leaves the skin.
Mark Twain
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save government.
Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough
to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop