1. 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 congress.
-- John Adams
2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But, then, I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain
4. 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
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
6. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
7. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey & 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.
-- Rockwell 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 & report the facts.
-- Will Rogers
11. 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)
12. 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.)
13. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Mark Twain (1866)
14. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-- Anonymous
15. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end & no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan
16. 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
17. The only difference between a tax man & a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain
18. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
19. There is no distinctly native American criminal class ... save, Congress.
--Anonymous
20. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
21. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Thomas Jefferson
22. The biggest difference between Republicans and Democrats is the spelling.-- Anonymous
23. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.-- Thomas Jefferson
THERE AIN'T NO TICKS LIKE POLY TICKS----BLOODSUCKERS ALL!
-- Davy Crockett