Friday, August 26, 2005
Friday Humor
22 Reflections on government...
- 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
- 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 Univ
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys...P.J. O'Rourke
- 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
