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[COMMENT: This came through that endless well of wisdom, the internet. No doubt a similar package could be put together for the pseudo-conservatives.
There is a genuine liberalism - the Jeffersonian kind, in
which the truth is sought through keeping the public discussion going on a level
and honest playing field.
E. Fox]
'If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
read the
newspaper you are misinformed.'
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 (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 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 (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
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 (1928 - 1995)
A government big enough to give you
everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas
Jefferson
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