• 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

• If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free - P. J. O'Rourke

• 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 Libby

• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner - James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

• 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

• 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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