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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Observations on Politics and that sort of thing…

Observations on Politics and that sort of thing…



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 Congress.... 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


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


Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James Bovard, Civil Libertarian


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 is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)


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


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

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

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


The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain


The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)


There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.
Mark Twain


What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist


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


The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. – Jean-Baptiste Colbert


In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. - Ambrose Bierce


The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman


Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. - Charles Peters


Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. - George Bernard Shaw

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