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 (1994)
 
 
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor
people in rich countries to rich people in poor
countries. -- Douglas Casey (1992)
 
 
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
 
 
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 in taking
as much money as possible from one party of the
citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
 
 
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while
the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
 
 
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a
member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
 
 
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. -- Will Rogers
 
 
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 only one basic human right, the right to do
as you damn well please. And with it comes the only
basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
 
 
What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians. -- Edward Langley
 
 
When buying and selling are controlled by
legislation, the first things to be bought and sold
are legislators. -- P.J. O'Rourke