A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw<\/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. – Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke<\/p>\n
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat<\/p>\n
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers<\/p>\n
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
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you! – Pericles<\/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
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 government. – John Adams<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain<\/p>\n
The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain<\/p>\n
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop<\/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
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. – Edward Langley<\/p>\n
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n
Talk is cheap…except when government does it. \u2013 Anonymous<\/p>\n
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(ed. – Thanks to our Ottawa friend Dick Inwood for this series of humourous\u00a0political quotes.)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n