Wisdom
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of
Paul.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries
to rich people in poor countries.
– Douglas Casey (1992)
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.
– P.J. O'Rourke
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at
the expense of everybody else.
– Frederic Bastiat
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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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I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. –Will Rogers
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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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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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No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session.
– Mark Twain (1866)
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I
repeat myself.
– Mark Twain
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Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. 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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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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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain
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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
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What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. –an unknown but Wise Man