I got these in an e-mail, and they're worth sharing. Especially around election time. There is a lot of wisdom here.

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, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. 
- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at  Georgetown   University  

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. 
- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

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

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 

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)

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 )

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. 
- Unknown 

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 

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. 
- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. 
- Mark Twain 

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. 
- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995) 

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


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