Wisdom A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw % Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey (1992) % 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 % 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 % 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 is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866) % Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain % Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. 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 % We 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 % What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. --an unknown but Wise Man