Quotes about government

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. – John Adams
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2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. – Mark Twain
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3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
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4. 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
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5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.– George Bernard Shaw
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6. 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
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7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.– James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
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8. 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
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9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.– P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
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10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.– Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
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11. 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)
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12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.– Will Rogers
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13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!– P.J. O’Rourke
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14. 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)
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15. 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.)
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16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.– Mark Twain (1866)
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17. Talk is cheap… except when Congress does it.– Anonymous
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18.The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.– Ronald Reagan
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19.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
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20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.– Mark Twain
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21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.–Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
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22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class… save Congress.– Mark Twain
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23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.– Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
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24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.– Thomas Jefferson
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Tattoo Jim said...
They are so funny and what's so funny and sad is they are all so true.

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