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"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 the Government....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
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)

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
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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 group of 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 Government 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 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)

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.
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