Every now and then, a funny email will come my way.
Reflections on Government
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) Democracy must be something more than two wolves
and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
.............James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
6) 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
7) Giving money and power to government is like giving
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
................P.J O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
..........Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
9) 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)
10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and
report the facts.
..............Will Rogers
11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until
you see what it costs when it's free.
.........P.J. O'Rourke
12) 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)
13) 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.)
14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the
legislature is in session.
....Mark Twain (1866)
15) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it.
.....Unknown
16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal,
with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility
at the other.
........Ronald Reagan
17) 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
18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist
is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
.....Mark Twain
19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of
folly is to fill the world with fools.
.......Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class...
save Congress.
.....Mark Twain
21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
.......Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
22) A government big enough to give you everything you
want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
........Thomas Jefferson
Governmental One-Liners
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Re: Governmental One-Liners
Ronald Reagan wrote:
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.
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal,
with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility
at the other.
Atokal
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
