AGELESS WIT AND OBSERVATIONS

  A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
- 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; a 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

  Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

  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 )  

Talk is cheap...except when Congress 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

  What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)