[Rhodes22-list] Government truisms

[Hank]

Bipartisan comments on the government.

Hank

*Government True-isms:*



Suppose you were an idiot.

And suppose you were a member of Congress

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 a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

-Winston Churchill





"The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control
immigration."

-Unknown





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 function, 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