[CS-FSLUG] Good quotes!

[Fred A. Miller]

1. *Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you 
were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. 
--Mark Twain (1868)

2. *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 (1935)

3. *A government, which robs Peter to pay Paul, 
can always depend on the support of Paul. 
--George Bernard Shaw

4. *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

5. *Democracy must be something more than 
two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have 
for dinner. 
--James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer 
from poor people in rich countries to rich people 
in poor countries. 
--Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at 
Georgetown U. (1992)

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

8. Government is the great fiction, through which 
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody 
else. 
--Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

9. *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)

10. *I don't make jokes. I just watch the government 
and report the facts. 
--Will Rogers

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

12. *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.
--Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time
(1995)

13. *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. 
--Voltaire (1764)

14. *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.)

15. *No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the
legislature is in session.
 --Mark Twain (1866)

16. *Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it.
--(Unknown)

17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal
with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility 
at the other.
--Ronald Reagan

18. *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

19. *The only difference between a tax man and a 
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. 
--Mark Twain

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

21. *There is no distinctly native American criminal 
class save Congress. 
--Mark Twain

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

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"As Internet technology itself vaults into new areas, so too does the
Microsoft monopoly and its tried-and-true bag of tricks."
-US Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah