On Government and Taxation:


"In my many years I have come to a conclusion, ... that one useless man is a shame,   two [useless men] is a law firm and three or more [useless men] is a government."

 ~John Adams

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

~Mark Twain

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"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

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

~George Bernard Shaw 
                 
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"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."

- Douglas Casey
A Classmate of Bill Clinton at University

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"Giving  money and  power to  government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

-P.J. O'Rourke,  Civil Libertarian

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

-Mark Twain  (1866)
           
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"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other"

- Ronald  Reagan