Political Shorts
THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT:
A failure in life will oftentimes seek positions of power to mentally justify an ego that is otherwise unattainable without the achievers.
--Michael F. Farinacci (1954-)
Austinburg, OH
Money doesn't cure you from being an idiot. You're just a rich one!
--Michael F. Farinacci (1954-)
Austinburg, OH
1. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But, wait, I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain
2. We 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
3. A government, which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support
of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw
4. 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
5. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what
to have for dinner.
--James Bovard
Civil Libertarian (1994)
6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries.
--Douglas Casey, Classmate
of Clinton at Georgetown
7. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.
--P.J. O'Rourke, Civil
Libertarian
8. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at
the expense of everybody else.
--Frederic Bastiat
French Economist
(1801-1850)
9. 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)
10. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
--Will Rogers
11. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs
when it's free.
--P.J. O'Rourke
12. If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal.
If you want government to intervene overseas,
you're a
conservative.
If you want government to intervene everywhere,
you're a moderate.
If you don't want government to intervene
anywhere, you're an
extremist.
--Joseph Sobran
Editor, National Review
(1995)
13. In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as
possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
--Voltaire (1764)
14. 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.)
15. No man's life, liberty, or properties are safe while the legislature is
in session.
--Mark Twain (1866)
16. Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it.
--(Unknown)
17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
--Ronald Reagan
18. 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
19. The only difference between a taxman and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin.
--Mark Twain
20. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer
English Philosopher
(1820-1903)
21. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class save Congress.
--Mark Twain
22. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley
Artist 1928-1995
23. Government is like an oil filter, the dirtier it becomes the more it corrupts
the engine and requires changing.
-- Michael Farinacci
Entrepreneur/Engineer
1954 -
24. Remember the EPA is always working the rear end of
everything. Leave your end unguarded for one minute and feel the wrath of
the sphincter people. (This
one came true with the new septic regulations)
--Michael Farinacci
Entrepreneur/Engineer
1954 -