After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials
of a free government. Economy is always a guarantee of peace. - Calvin Coolidge |
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. - Edward R Murrow |
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson |
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw |
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. Whatever
differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. - Barbara Jordan |
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide |
Both are foes to tranquility - the inability to change and the inability to endure. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the younger) |
Brief moments of freedom mark the lull between two episodes
of human history - Adjutor |
Debt - an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the
slave driver - Ambrose Bierce |
Democracy; Government by the few, over the many, chosen by some. - David McCourt |
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting
on what to have for dinner. -James Bovard (1994) |
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca (the elder) |
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the
only thing. - Albert Schweitzer |
Everyone takes the limits of his own field of vision for the
limits of the world - Arthur Schopenhauer |
Failure is the path of least persistence. - Michael Larsen |
Foreign aid might be de fined as a transfer of money from poor people
in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -Douglas Casey |
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -P.J. O'Rourke |
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors
to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat (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) |
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Ghandi |
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the
freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power
than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison |
I care not for what others think of what I do, but I care very much
about what I think of what I do. That is character! - Theodore Roosevelt |
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 |
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers |
If it's in focus it's pornography; if out of focus it is art. - Billy Kwan, from The Year of Living Dangerously |
If you are going to become a wine conisseuer, you must drink a lot of wine. - Bill Berry |
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 |
I know I am god because when I pray I find I am talking to myself. - Unknown |
I never said "I want to be alone". I only said "I want to be let alone". - Greta Garbo |
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 (1764) |
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to
our choice, and inconstancy of pursuing them, are the greatest causes of
all unhappiness. - Joseph Addison |
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. - Josiah Stamp |
It is hard to get your thing together if your thing is paradise on earth - Jerry Garcia |
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief - Lionel Trilling |
It is not in the nature of politics that the best
men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
- George MacDonald |
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.) |
Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so,
put a good tool in the hands of a poor workman. - John J Bernet |
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -Mark Twain (1866) |
No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side - Jascha Heifetz |
No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai |
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire
to lay down rules of conduct for other people. - William Howard Taft |
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a
bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev |
Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere,
may be happy. - H L Mencken |
Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few. - Marcus Porcius Cato (the Elder) |
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself. -Mark Twain |
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. -Unknown |
That should be considered long which can be decided but once. - Publilius Syrus |
That which fills the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I consider as my nature. - Chang Tsai |
The first duty of the revolutionary is to get away with it - Abbie Hoffman |
The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The
hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost
everybody. - Robert G Ingersoll |
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 mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger
ideas, never returns to its original size. - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -Mark Twain |
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -Mark Twain |
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
it's hands; you seek out your problems because you need their gifts.
- Rik Myers |
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
We must not mistake noise for weight, anger for argument, militance
for virtue, passion for sense, or gripes for principles - Leo Rosten |
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -Edward Langley (1928 - 1995) |
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln |