[Deke40]

- REFLECTIONS OF GREAT MINDS ON GOVT.


1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain
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2) 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
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3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off wi! th your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy
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5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
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6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J. Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)
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7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
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8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavo! rs to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
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9) 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)
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10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
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11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
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12) If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal.
If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
-- Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time(1995)
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13) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-- Voltaire (1764)
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14) 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.)
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15) No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Mark Twain (1866)
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16) Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. -- (Unknown)
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17) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan
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18) 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
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19) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain
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20) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
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21) There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
-- Mark Twain
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22) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995).........

[Paquadez]

Great stuff, Deke!

Paq

[Gibble]

The first two are the best

[bassetman]

I like this one too!

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J. Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

[DNeurococo]

Quote: 17) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan

That's great! Lectures on responsibility from the man who ran up the world's largest deficit!

#$DN

[Paquadez]

Pots and kettles and black spring readily to mind, DN!

paq