Debate, and discuss, just dont Bore me.
By History's greatest thinkers
Published on December 11, 2004 By Dr Guy In Humor
1)Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.  But I repeat myself.....Mark Twain
 
2) 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. ........WinstonChurchill
 
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
 ........George Bernard Shaw

4) 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

5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. .............James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

 6) 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

7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and 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. ..........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 and report the facts. ..............Will Rogers

11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
 .........P.J. O'Rourke

12) In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. ........Voltaire (1764)

13) 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.)

14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. ....Mark Twain (1866)

15) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it......Unknown

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

17) 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

18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin......Mark Twain

19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
.......Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress......Mark Twain

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

22) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.........Thomas Jefferson
 
23) All those who believe Social Security is a pyramid scheme - illegal except when run by the government - have one excellent RICO case! ....Barbara J. Theisen, a Jeffersonian

Comments
on Dec 11, 2004
If I may add:

"Any man capable of getting himself elected president should under no circumstances be allowed to do the job." -Douglas Adams
on Dec 11, 2004
If the opposite of Pro is Con, then wouldn't the opposite of Progress be Congress? ~ Gallagher
on Dec 11, 2004
My favorites:

4) 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


11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. .........P.J. O'Rourke


13) 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.)


May I add...

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
~Benjamin Franklin
on Dec 12, 2004
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

~W. C. Fields
on Dec 12, 2004
heres one from Walter Winchell a great radio political commentater from the 30s and 40s {i believe}

"If you want to see the scum of the earth, stand outside any prison in america"

"watch the changing of the guards"
on Dec 13, 2004

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

~W. C. Fields

Ah, My Little Chickadee!  Yeessss.

"Any man capable of getting himself elected president should under no circumstances be allowed to do the job." -Douglas Adams

I had heard that one, but never seen it attributed (I thought it was Mark Twain).  Great  one!

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
~Benjamin Franklin

Excellant Addition Heather!