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On Government by grzbear ..... Quotes, Aphorisms and Proverbs

Date:   8/1/2007 2:30:07 PM ( 17 y ago)
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

Thomas Jefferson

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

P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

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

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

James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw
 

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