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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

— Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

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

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!

— P.J. O’Rourke

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

— Mark Twain (1866)

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

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

Talk is cheap… except when Congress does it.

— Anonymous

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

— Thomas Jefferson

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

— Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

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)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

— P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

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