1.

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 congress.

-- John Adams



2.

If you don't read the newspaper

you are uninformed,

if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

-- Mark Twain





3.

Suppose you were an idiot.

And suppose you were a member of Congress.

But then I repeat myself.

-- Mark Twain



4.

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



5.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul

can always depend on the support of Paul.

-- George Bernard Shaw



6.

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



7.

Democracy must be something more

than two wolves and a sheep

voting on what to have for dinner.

-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)



8.

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



9.

Giving money and power to government

is like giving whiskey and car keys

to teenage boys.

-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian



10.

Government is the great fiction,

through which everybody endeavors

to live at the expense of everybody else.

-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)



11.

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)



12.

I don't make jokes.

I just watch the government

and report the facts.

-- Will Rogers



13.

If you think health care is expensive now,

wait until you see what it costs when it's free!

-- P.J. O'Rourke



14.

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)



15.

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.)



16.

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

-- Mark Twain (1866)



17.

Talk is cheap...

except when Congress does it.

-- Anonymous



18.

The government is like

a baby's alimentary canal,

with a happy appetite at one end

and no responsibility at the other.

-- Ronald Reagan



19.

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



20.

The only difference between a tax man

and a taxidermist

is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

-- Mark Twain



21.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)



22.

There is no distinctly native American

criminal class...

save Congress.

-- Mark Twain



23.

What this country needs

are more unemployed politicians.

-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)



24.

A government big enough

to give you everything you want,

is strong enough

to take everything you have.

-- Thomas Jefferson



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