Which Quote will YOU use today?

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

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself-----Mark Twain

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner---James Bovard

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

 

B

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else---Frederic Bastiat

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)

The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other---Ronald Reagan

C

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free---

P.J. O’Rourke

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)

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin---Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians---Edward Langley

D

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

 

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

 

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.