{"id":5401,"date":"2014-09-19T08:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2014-09-19T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T12:50:06","slug":"20-great-quotes-on-government-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"20 great quotes on government and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhen one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.\u201d &#8211; Ron Paul<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGovernment\u2019s 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.\u201d \u2013 Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGovernment can&#8217;t give us anything without depriving us of something else.\u201d &#8211; Henry Hazlitt<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen you can&#8217;t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.\u201d &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPolitics is not a game. It is an earnest business.\u201d &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.\u201d &#8211; Benjamin Disraeli<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.\u201d &#8211; George Eliot<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEspousing fiscal responsibility requires only a voice; achieving it requires virtue.\u201d &#8211; Selwyn Duke<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe 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.\u201d \u2013 Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGovernment is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.\u201d \u2013 Frederic Bastiat<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDemocracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.\u201d \u2013 James Bovard<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.\u201d \u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI don\u2019t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.\u201d \u2013 Will Rogers<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA government committee charged with considering three possible courses of action soon had the choice narrowed down to eight.\u201d \u2013 Richard Needham<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.\u201d \u2013 Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Liberals talk about a stable government but we don\u2019t know how bad the stable is going to smell.\u201d \u2013 T C Douglas<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for and politicians find out what people will fall for.&#8221; &#8211; Alfred E. Neuman<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPublic office is the last refuge of the incompetent.\u201d \u2013 Boies Penrose<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Politicians are people who get sworn in and cursed out!&#8221; &#8211; Alfred E. Neuman<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat this country needs are more unemployed politicians.\u201d \u2013 Edward Langley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.\u201d &#8211; Ron Paul \u201cGovernment\u2019s 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.\u201d \u2013 Ronald Reagan \u201cGovernment can&#8217;t give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5402,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}