Do we never learn ?

Scout943

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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 government.
John Adams

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark Twain

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

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

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

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

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 (1764)

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.)

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

Talk is cheap...except when government does it.
Anonymous

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 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 government.
Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

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

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
 
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo, The Godfather

A lawyer who gets himself elected to some public office can steal more than a hundred regular lawyers.
Snake45
 
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One of my favorites: Unfortunately so true.

"What good fortune for government that the people do not think.".....Adolph Hitler.

Paul B.
 
Lots of tongue in cheek sayings from many people about politics and government but for what purpose? ...4th of July?
 
Jimbo357mag said:
Lots of tongue in cheek sayings from many people about politics and government but for what purpose? ...4th of July?

Nope, just a bunch of freedom loving guys quoting some of their favorite quotes.

Personally, my favorite Sam Clemens quote is "There are three types of lies. Lies, damn lies and statistics."
 
My favorite from Mark Twain:

"Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason."

Best argument there is for term limits.
 
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