What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
        -Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)


"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 Parliament....
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


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)


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)


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