JSGervais

Came across those quotes, could not resist not sharing them with you !

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.
 -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


 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 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


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

 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