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*Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.
> -- Mark Twain
>
> 2. *We 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
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> 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, Civil Libertarian (1994)
>
> 6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries.
> -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)
>
> 7. *Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys.
> -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
>
> 8. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to
live
> at the expense of everybody else.
> -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
>
> 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 (1986)
>
> 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. *If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal.
> If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative.
> If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate.
> If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're n extremist.
> -- Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)
>
> 13. *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)
>
> 14. *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.)
>
> 15. *No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is
in session.
> -- Mark Twain (1866)
>
> 16. *Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it.
> -- (Meandyou)
>
> 17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
> -- Ronald Reagan
>
> 18. *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
>
> 19. *The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin.
> -- Mark Twain
>
> 20. *The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools.
> -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
>
> 21. *There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
> -- Mark Twain
>
> 22. *What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
> -- Edward
 
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