I’m weary, reduced to aphorisms from individuals who are orders of magnitude smarter and wiser than the current crop of Chicago thugs & power mongers trying to re-engineer America from the cocoon-like insularity of Washington DC.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
~Margaret Thatcher
I contend that 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
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, French Economist (1801-1850)
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)
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
~Mark Twain (1866)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
~Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
~James Madison
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
~Mark Twain
