10 Timely Quotes

10 Timely Quotes~
Reaganite Republican ^ | October 25, 2011 | Reaganite Republican


'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

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

'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)

'There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.' - 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)

'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.)

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

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

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

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