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1. 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 congress. - John Adams
   
   
2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain
   
   
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
   
   
4. 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
   
   
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
   
   
6. 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
   
   
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard
   
   
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. - Douglas Casey
   
   
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke
   
   
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat
    
    
11. 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
    
    
12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
    
    
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! - P.J. O'Rourke
    
    
14. 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
    
    
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! - Pericles
    
    
16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain
    
    
17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. - Anonymous
    
    
18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan
    
    
19. 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
    
    
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain
    
    
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
    
    
22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. - Mark Twain
    
    
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
    
    
24. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

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