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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