Famous Tax and Government Quotes
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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
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey,
Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)
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
If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If
you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative.
If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a
moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere,
you're an extremist. -- Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National
Review
In general, the art of government consists in 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 are 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
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