May 17, 2009

Witticism

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

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

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

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. - Douglas Casey (Bill Clinton's classmate at Georgetown University Law School)

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, (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

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 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 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, (an Artist: 1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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