Political Wisdom

Gathered over the years:

"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



Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian



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)



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



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 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


What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist


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

Something to think about as we head into the 2008 elections.