Humorous Quotes on Government

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

-Mark Twain


2) 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


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 of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University


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) 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)


13) 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.)


14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

-Mark Twain (1866)


15) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it.

-Unknown


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

-Ronald Reagan


17) 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


18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

-Mark Twain


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

-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)


20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress.

-Mark Twain


21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)


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

-Thomas Jefferson
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