1. Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
2. We 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
3. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.--
George Bernard Shaw
4. 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
5. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for
dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich
people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of W. J. Clinton at Georgetown U.
(1992)
7. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage
boys.-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
8. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
9. 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)
10. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
11. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs
when it's free. -- P.J. O'Rourke
12. If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want
government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to
intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene
anywhere, you're an extremist. -- Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at
one time (1995)
13. In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible
from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
14. 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.)
15. No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in
session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
16. Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. -- (Unknown)
17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and
no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
18. 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
19. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist
leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
20. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the
world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
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