Government: An Eternal Source of Good Quotes
I received this in my email today and thought it worth posting. Mind you, I haven't checked these quotes, so it is possible that some of them are not legitimate.
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain
A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. --Thomas Jefferson
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) (This one may require a little explanation. If you keep passing laws to "protect" people from themselves, they will never learn to be responsible for themselves or to think for themselves, and ultimately, you have a nation of idiots. --Marina)
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
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
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
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 endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. --Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850)
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)
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 in 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 Congress does it. --Cullen Hightower
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 inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. --Winston Churchill
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 Congress. -- Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. --Edward Langley, artist (1928 - 1995)