COURTESY OF GOLDMELTER

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 of Congress . . . 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 fellow man, 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) "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!" - P.J. O'Rourke "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) "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) "Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it." – Anon =0 D "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 inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing20of misery." - Winston Churchill "The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." - Mark Twain "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) "There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress." - 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