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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
If you don't read
the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are
misinformed
Suppose you were
an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat
myself
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
A government
which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul
A liberal is
someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes
to pay off with your money
Democracy must be
something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for
dinner
Foreign aid might
be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to
rich people in poor countries
Giving money and
power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys
Government is the
great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense
of everybody else
Government's view
of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:
I don't make
jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts
If you think
health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's
free
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
Just because you
do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an
interest in you
No man's life,
liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session
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
The inherent vice
of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent
blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery
The only
difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist
leaves the skin
The ultimate
result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world
with fools
There is no
distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress
What this country
needs are more unemployed politicians
A government big
enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take
everything you have
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