Government Explained

[ConnieLard]

Subject: Government Explained:

1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress................But I repeat myself.
                                                       (Mark Twain)

2) 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)

3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.        (George Bernard Shaw)

4) 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)

5) 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)

6) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
                               (P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian)

7) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.                                    (Will Rogers)

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

9) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.                              (Voltaire, 1764)

10) 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.).

11) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.                     (Mark Twain, 1866)

12) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
                                                 (Ronald Reagan)

13) 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)

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

15) There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress.                                   (Mark Twain)

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