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300 YEARS OF POLITICAL WISDOM |
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Written by To The Point News
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
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 (1694-1778)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
The ultimate result of
shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is
that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -Mark Twain (1835-1910)
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend
on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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 (1874-1965)
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -Edward Langley (1928 - 1995)
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a
happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
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 (1930-)
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys. -P.J.
O'Rourke (1947-)
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