Wit and Wisdrom from the Past

"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

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -Frederic Bastiat

"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

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

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." -Thomas Jefferson

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." -Barak Obama

"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost." -Barak Obama