If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- 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
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 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)
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
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
