1. 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.)
2. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much
money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
–Voltaire (1764)
3. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
4. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
– Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
5. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
6.A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson
This is not about our Parliament... no contempt here...
1. 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.
2. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. – Anonymous
3. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain (1866)
4. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. – Mark Twain
5. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But then I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
Taxes are for levying…
1. 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
2. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the
blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing
of misery. – Winston Churchill
3. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that
the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain
4. 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)
Being poor has never been this profitable : Rozgar yojana, food security, 50-95% subsidy through PDS etc....
1. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
2. 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
Things you always wanted to say but didn't know how to:
1. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner. –James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
2. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians
–Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
3. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan
4. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
In praise of free media :
1. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
read the newspaper you are misinformed. – Mark Twain
2. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the
facts. — Will Rogers
Socialists of the world unite to fight these blasphemes:
1. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
2. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.
4. . What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going
to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work
because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
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