Nov 22 2008

You’ve seen these, but maybe you haven’t thought about them lately

Category: politicsharmonicminer @ 1:25 am

FAMOUS POLITICAL QUOTES

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”  [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]

“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: 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)]

“Poor people have been voting for Democrats for 50 years; and they’re still poor.”  [unknown]

AND THE BEST ONE…….

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”  [Thomas Jefferson]

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