Profound Statements
1. 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
2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
read the newspaper you are misinformed.
— Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But then I repeat myself.
— Mark Twain
4. 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
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend
on the support of Paul.
— George Bernard Shaw
6. 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
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor
people in rich countries to rich people
in poor countries.
— Douglas Casey, Georgetown University
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys.
— P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
11. 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)
12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report
the facts.
— Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you
see what it costs when it’s free!
— P.J. O’Rourke
14. 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)
15. 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.)
16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the
legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
— Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite
at one end and no responsibility at
the other.
— Ronald Reagan
19. 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
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is
that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
— Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of
folly is to fill the world with fools.
— Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save
Congress.
— Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
— Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have.
— Thomas Jefferson