These were sent to me by a friend. I thought some of you might enjoy them.


AGELESS WIT AND OBSERVATIONS

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed,
if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
--Mark Twain

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 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, 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
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