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Insights... “Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.” — Tyron Edwards “The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.” — Duguet “No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” — Mark Twain “Too many in the media act as if decency is a violation of the First Amendment.” — Thomas Sowell “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.” — P.J. O'Rourke “I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” — Will Rogers |
Some Quotes on Politics A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can
always depend on the support of Paul. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal
sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of
misery. There is only one basic human right, the right
to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty; the duty to
take the consequences. 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. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from
poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. 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. 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. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government
and report the facts. Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. When buying and selling are controlled by
legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. Just because you do not take an interest in
politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. No man's life, liberty, or property are safe
while the congress is in session. Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. 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. Democracy must be something more than two wolves
and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to
his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. The only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. If you think health care is expensive now, wait
until you see what it costs when it's free. What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians. The government is like a baby's alimentary
canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were
a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. There is no distinctly native American criminal
class save Congress. Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. |