Virtue in a Swamp
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. – Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat myself. – 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
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, Author
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastia, French economist (1801-1850)
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 government does it. – Anonymous
The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class…save government. – Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. – Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Virtue in a Swamp
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. – Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat myself. – 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
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, Author
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastia, French economist (1801-1850)
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 government does it. – Anonymous
The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class…save government. – Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. – Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop