Jokes and Giggles
Copyright© 2015 by Jack Spratt
Chapter 383
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
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 whisky and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavours 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
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.
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