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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. 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


7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)


8. 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


9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian


10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)


11. 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)


12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

-- Will Rogers


13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!

-- P.J. O'Rourke


14. 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)


15. 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.)


16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

-- Mark Twain (1866)


17. Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it.

-- Anonymous


18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

-- Ronald Reagan


19. 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


20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

-- Mark Twain


21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)


22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress.

-- Mark Twain


23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)


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

-- Thomas Jefferson