[Maillist] Simple, but truthful!

Milton Felger mfelger1 at austin.rr.com
Fri Oct 3 18:15:07 EDT 2003


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

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 from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries.
-- Douglas Casey (1992)

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

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)

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

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it
costs when it's free.  (NOTE:  CANADA!)
- P.J. O'Rourke

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)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain

Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. The government is like a
baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan




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