"If you don't read the newspaper, you are un-informed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."<o:p></o:p>
Mark Twain<o:p></o:p>
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress....but then I repeat myself.<o:p></o:p>
Mark Twain<o:p></o:p>
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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.<o:p></o:p>
Winston Churchill<o:p></o:p>
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.<o:p></o:p>
George Bernard Shaw<o:p></o:p>
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A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.<o:p></o:p>
G. Gordon Liddy<o:p></o:p>
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves<o:p></o:p>
and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.<o:p></o:p>
James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)<o:p></o:p>
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Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money<o:p></o:p>
from poor people in rich countries to rich people in<o:p></o:p>
poor countries. Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Georgetown</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p>
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Giving money and power to government is like giving<o:p></o:p>
whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.<o:p></o:p>
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian<o:p></o:p>
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.<o:p></o:p>
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)<o:p></o:p>
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:<o:p></o:p>
If it moves, tax it.<o:p></o:p>
If it keeps moving, regulate it.<o:p></o:p>
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.<o:p></o:p>
Ronald Reagan (1986)<o:p></o:p>
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.<o:p></o:p>
Will <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rogers</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p>
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If you think health care is expensive now,<o:p></o:p>
wait until you see what it costs when it's free!<o:p></o:p>
P. J. O'Rourke<o:p></o:p>
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In general, the art of government consists of taking<o:p></o:p>
as much money as possible from one party of the<o:p></o:p>
citizens to give to the other.<o:p></o:p>
Voltaire (1764)<o:p></o:p>
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics<o:p></o:p>
doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!<o:p></o:p>
Pericles (430 B.C.)<o:p></o:p>
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.<o:p></o:p>
Mark Twain (1866 )<o:p></o:p>
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Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.<o:p></o:p>
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The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.<o:p></o:p>
Ronald Reagan<o:p></o:p>
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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.<o:p></o:p>
Winston Churchill <o:p></o:p>
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.<o:p></o:p>
Mark Twain<o:p></o:p>
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.<o:p></o:p>
Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)<o:p></o:p>
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There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.<o:p></o:p>
Mark Twain<o:p></o:p>
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.<o:p></o:p>
Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)<o:p></o:p>
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.<o:p></o:p>
Thomas Jefferson<o:p></o:p>