FAMOUS POLITICAL QUOTES
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” [Mark Twain]
“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]
“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]
“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: 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)]
“Poor people have been voting for Democrats for 50 years; and they’re still poor.” [unknown]
AND THE BEST ONE…….
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” [Thomas Jefferson]
