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<\/p>\n
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat<\/p>\n
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. – John Adams<\/p>\n
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. – Mark Twain<\/p>\n
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.
\n– Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard<\/p>\n
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
\n– Douglas Casey (classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University)<\/p>\n
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free! – P.J. O’Rourke<\/p>\n
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you! – Pericles<\/p>\n
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke<\/p>\n
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
\n– Mark Twain<\/p>\n
Talk is cheap… except when Congress does it. – Anonymous<\/p>\n
You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. – Joseph Levine<\/p>\n
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
\n– Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer<\/p>\n
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class… save Congress.
\n– Mark Twain<\/p>\n
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
\n– Edward Langley<\/p>\n
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop<\/p>\n
The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’. – Larry Hardiman<\/p>\n
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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