They said it!

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They said it

1. *Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I

repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

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

3. *A government which robs to pay can always depend on the support

of . -- 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. -- Bovard, Civil Libertarian(1994)

6. *Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich

countriesto rich people in poor countries. -- Casey, Clinton Classmate

at town U '92.

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. -- Reagan (1986)

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

--Will .

11. *If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs

when it's free. -- P.J. O'Rourke.

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little of each other everywhere. " ~

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