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Government: Robbing Peter to pay Paul

July 6, 2006 by Paul Smith Jr

“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

“Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.” —Douglas Casey

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” —P.J. O’Rourke

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
—Frederic Bastiat

“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

“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

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

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

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class… save Congress.” —Mark Twain

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem…. [I]f no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?” —Ronald Reagan

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