Ageless Wit and Timeless Observations

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain --

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress... But then 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 --

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

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian --

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850) --

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-- Will Rogers --

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

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-- Pericles (430 BC) --

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

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-- Unknown --

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

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 --

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

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

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Thomas Jefferson --