Quotes of Perspective
- In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams
- 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 ofCongress. 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 fellowman, 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)