Quotes

Government big enough to supply everything you need, is big enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

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

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


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


Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles

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

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