AGELESS WIT AND OBSERVATIONS

"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 Congress....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.”

-Mark Twain

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“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,  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 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 Congress does it.
 

-Unknown

“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 Congress.”

-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

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