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These quotes are classics - mainly because, for the most part, they're true...

~~~~~~~~~~~Witty Sayings from Notable People~~~~~~~~~~~

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, Classmate of Bill Clinton at 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 s 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

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop

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