"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, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

 Giving money and power to 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, with 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)

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

 -Thomas Jefferson