Wise Words from Wise Men 


   A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
   support of Paul.
   - George Bernard Shaw


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


   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


   The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
   taxidermist leaves the skin.
   -Mark Twain
   The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
   fill the world with fools.
   -Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)


   There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save
   Congress.
   -Mark Twain


   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