25 October 2011

10 Timely Quotes~

'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

Bonus: +25 of Reagan's best -here-

-h/t Kirby-