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
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-- Douglas Casey (1992)
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat
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 acts.
-- 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)
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain
Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it.
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
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
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley
