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Political axioms

by Greg Krehbiel on 28 October 2008

Got this in email. It’s worth reading.

‘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,

Giving money and power to the 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)

AND THE BEST ONE:

A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

2008-10-28  »  Greg Krehbiel