Wisdom and Government -Oxymorons

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

--Mark Twain

 We 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

. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

--Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

 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

 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)

 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 are 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

 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