Hey, Obama Supporters. Don't forget this:

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

~ Thomas Jefferson

Fools, Fools, Everywhere there are Fools

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

~ Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

Churchill Does it Again

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

Government Responsibility

As a parent who has been changing diapers for 5 years now, this one really hits home:

"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 Greatest American Writer

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
~ Mark Twain (1866)

There is no distinctly native American criminal class… save Congress.
~ Mark Twain

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

More Ancient Wisdom

OK...so 250 years isn't that big of deal. What about a quote from around 430 B.C.:

"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.)

Government doesn't change

IN 1764 (Yes...that's around 250 years ago), Voltaire said:

"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."

The cost of Health Care

A local radio commercial is promoting itself with a Limo ride to lunch for you and 10 co-workers. They end with something akin to "and you thought there was no such thing as a free lunch." Every time I hear it I yell at the radio, THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH. THERE IS ONLY FREE TO YOU!

Somebody is paying for it.


If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!
~ P.J. O’Rourke

The Gipper's WIt

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)

Government as Literature

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

~ Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

The Maturity of Government

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

~ P.J. O'Rourke

Democracy Good?

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

~ James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Shaw Quote

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

~ George Bernard Shaw

Liddy Quote

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

Churchill Quote

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

Mark Twain Quote

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

~ Mark Twain

John Adams Quote

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