FAMOUS POLITICAL QUOTES

With the upcoming elections here are a few quotes to reflect on: 

John Adams 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 government. 

Mark Twain(1866) 
 Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat myself. 
 No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. 
 If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. 
 The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. 

Winston Churchill 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. 

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

Douglas Casey (Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. 

P.J. O'Rourke (Civil Libertarian) 
 Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. 
 If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! 

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

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

Voltaire (1764) 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. 

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

Anonymous Talk is cheap...except when government does it. 

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

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

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

Aesop (Ancient Greek fabulist 620-564 B.C.) We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.