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> > 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 government.
> > John Adams
> >
> > 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
> > government. 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Giving money &
> > power to government is like giving whiskey & 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)
> >
> > 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 part 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 government does
> > it.
> > Anonymous
> >
> > The government is
> > like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at
> > one end and no responsibility at the other.
> > Ronald
> > Reagan
> >
> > The only
> > difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
> > taxidermist leaves the skin.
> > Mark
> > Twain
> >
> > There is no
> > distinctly Native American criminal class...save
> > government.
> > Mark
> > Twain
> >
> > What this
> > country needs are more unemployed politicians.
> > Edward
> > Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
> >
> > A government big
> > enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to
> > take everything you have.
> > Thomas
> > Jefferson
> >
> > We hang
> > the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
> > office.
> > Aesop
 

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