Great Political Truths

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. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
7. 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
8. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
9. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
10. 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)
11. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
12. 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)
13. 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.)
14. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain (1866)
15. Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Anonymous
16. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan
17. 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
18. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain
19. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
20. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class... save Congress. - Mark Twain
21. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
22. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson
23. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop