"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two [useless men] is a law firm and three or more [useless men] is a government."
~John Adams
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"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." (Would the Observer qualify?)
~Mark Twain
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"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
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"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
~George Bernard Shaw
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"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
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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
~P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
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"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else."
~Frederic Bastia, French economist(1801-1850)
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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
~Will Rogers
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"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)
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"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.)
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"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
~Mark Twain (1866)
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"Talk is cheap...except when government does it."
~Anonymous
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"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
~ Ronald Reagan
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"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
~Mark Twain
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"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."
~Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
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"A government big enough to give you everything you want,is strong enough to take everything you have."
~Thomas Jefferson
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
~Aesop
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"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"
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Myth Buster
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