Government truism's and why we need help

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end, and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan

Just beacuse you don't take an interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
-Pericles ( 430 B.C. )

Talk is cheap, except when congress does it.
- Unknown

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

In general, the art of gov't consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire ( 1764 )

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

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers

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 )

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

Gov't is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, Economist

Giving money and power to gov't is like whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard ( 1994 )

A gov't which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw

A gov't big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley

A government that thinks it can tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill