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A Collection of superb, hard hitting, humorous comments…

*”In my many years I have come to a conclusion, … that one useless man is a shame,  two [useless men] is a law firm and three or more [useless men] is a government.”* ~John Adams

*”If you don’t read the newspaper you are  uninformed, if you do read the newspaper, you are  misinformed.”* ~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 

*”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

*”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)

*”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  only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”* ~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 

*”We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”* ~Aesop         

*”If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!”* ~P.J.  O’Rourke