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Old 07-30-2007, 10:10 AM
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1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain

2) 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

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 of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
--Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown Univ.

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) 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)

13) 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.)

14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
--Mark Twain (1866)

15) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it.
--Unknown

16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
--Ronald Reagan

17) 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

18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
--Mark Twain

19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.
--Mark Twain

21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
--Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

22) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
--Thomas Jefferson

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Old 07-30-2007, 10:38 AM
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"Work, work, work. Work, work, work. Work, work, work. (Then ogles his paramour's ample breasts) Hello boys, have a good night's rest? I missed you." - Mel Brooks as "The Gov" in "Blazing Saddles" (1974).
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Old 07-30-2007, 10:39 AM
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2) 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
My favorite!
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Old 07-30-2007, 11:23 AM
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My favorite!
My favorite, all of them!
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Old 07-30-2007, 12:28 PM
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-Otto von Bismarck

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
-James Russell Lowell
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We're lucky we don't get all the government we pay for.
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"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
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Number 2 can be done if you pick up the handle and jump....
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Number 2 can be done if you pick up the handle and jump....
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