Posted on 12/02/2017 1:24:29 PM PST by sodpoodle
In my many years I’ve come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, and two or more is a government. John Adams
If you don't read the newspaper you’re uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. Mark Twain
Suppose you’re an idiot. And suppose you’re a member of government. But then I repeat myself. 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 undying support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
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 tirelessly endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
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 don't 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 government does it. Anonymous
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 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, Artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is powerful enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop
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I think I got it;) LOL!
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it. -P.J. O’Rourke
Ha!! thanks for posting
“THE men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He’s the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It’s terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today.”
~G.K. Chesterton: Cleveland Press interview (March 1, 1921)
Excellent - thank you...
bttt
If you don't read the newspaper you’re uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. Mark Twain
with respect to the American DriveBy Media, I follow it with this related quote by Will Rogers:
It ain't what we don't know that's the problem. It's what we know that just ain't so.
BTTT.
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