one liners

[boutons_]

• Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But 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, Civil Libertarian (1994)

• 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

• 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

• 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 inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
  
  Winston Churchill

• What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
  
  Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

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

[possessed]

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-Winston Churchill