Quotes my mother sent me with the following message: Still Relevant!
I do love a few of them very much but the rest remind me of the differences at the core level between our two views on politics & government.
The subject line read: If you think health care is expensive now...
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." --George Bernard Shaw
"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
"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." --Douglas Casey (1992)
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." --P.J. O'Rourke
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." --Frederic Bastiat
"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)
"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
"If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist." --Joseph Sobran (1995)
"In general, the art of government consists in 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 are safe while the legislature is in session." --Mark Twain (1866)
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself." --Mark Twain
"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it."
"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 inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." --Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. --Mark Twain
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." --Herbert Spencer (1891)
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress." --Mark Twain
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you darn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." --P.J. O'Rourke (1993)
"We 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
"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians." --Edward Langley
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." --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)
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Since I included the subject line I feel I'm intitled to respond to it: the US has the highest cost of health care (per person) of ALL industrialized countries, by a long shot and it is the ONLY industralized country without public health care. I now leave conservatives to do the math. And yes, I pointed that out ot my mother. Gutsy or foolish?