[BITList] AGELESS WIT AND OBSERVATIONS

[John Feltham]

AGELESS WIT AND 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



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



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

     -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)


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



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)



Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if
it stops moving, subsidize it.

      -Ronald Reagan (1986)



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




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 (1764)



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





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)



There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress..

     -Mark Twain



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