Great Minds

[mstattersall]

What I find interesting about these quotes is that they range all the 
way back to ancient Greece, yet the sentiments are largely the same 
as they are today.
Ms. Tattersall

> From another list. Some good quotes...
> 
> Nox
> 
> 
>  1. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
> Congress. But I repeat myself.
> 
>  --Mark Twain
> 
> 
>  2. 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
> 
> 
> 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 from poor people in 
rich
>  countries to rich people in poor countries.
> 
> --Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)
> 
> 
>  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. If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a
>  liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a
>  conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, 
you're a
>  moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, 
you're an
>  extremist.
> 
> --Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)
> 
> 
> 13. 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)
> 
> 
> 14. 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.)
> 
> 
>  15. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the 
legislature
>  is in session.
> 
>  --Mark Twain (1866)
> 
> 
>  16. Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it.
> 
>  --(Unknown)
> 
> 
> 17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy
> appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
> 
> --Ronald Reagan
> 
> 
> 18. 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
> 
> 
>  19. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that
> the taxidermist leaves the skin.
> 
>  --Mark Twain
> 
> 
> 20. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly 
is
> to fill the world with fools.
> 
> --Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
> 
> 
> 21. There is no distinctly native American criminal class-save
> Congress.
> 
>  --Mark Twain
> 
> 
>  22. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
>  -- Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995