{"id":1266,"date":"2010-05-20T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T00:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2010-05-20T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T00:15:04","slug":"quotable-quotations-on-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Quotable Quotations on Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<br \/>a congress.&#8221; &#8211; John Adams<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of Congress . . . But then I repeat myself.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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<br \/>up by the handle.&#8221; &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.&#8221; &#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.&#8221; &#8211; James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.&#8221; &#8211; Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.&#8221; &#8211; P.J. O&#8217;Rourke, Civil Libertarian<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government&#8217;s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases.  If it moves, tax it.  If it keeps<br \/>moving, regulate it.  And if it stops moving, subsidize it.&#8221; &#8211; Ronald Reagan (1986)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.&#8221; &#8211; Will Rogers<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it&#8217;s free!&#8221; &#8211; P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221; &#8211; Voltaire (1764)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No man&#8217;s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Twain (1866)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talk is cheap&#8230;except when Congress does it.&#8221; \u2013 Anon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government is like a baby&#8217;s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.&#8221; &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.  The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.&#8221; &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.&#8221; &#8211; Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no distinctly Native American criminal class&#8230;save Congress.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.&#8221; &#8211; Edward Langley, Artist (1928 &#8211; 1995)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 isa congress.&#8221; &#8211; John Adams &#8220;If you don&#8217;t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Twain &#8220;Suppose you were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quotable Quotations on Government&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}