Sunday 12 October 2008

Quotes for the Day...

'What this country needs are more unemployed Politicians'.- Edward Langley, Artist

'There is no distinctly native American criminal Class...save Congress.'- Mark Twain

'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

'Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.' - Unknown

'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)

'I don't make jokes. I just watch the government And report the facts.'
- Will Rogers

'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)

'Government is the great fiction, through which Everybody endeavors to live at the expense of Everybody else.' - Frederic Bastiat, French Economist

'Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer Of money from poor people in rich countries To rich people in poor countries.' - Douglas Casey

'Democracy must be something more than Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to
Have for dinner.'
- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian

'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

'A government which robs Peter to pay Paul Can always depend on the support of Paul.'- George Bernard Shaw

'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

'Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose You were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.'- Mark Twain

H/T DML

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