Political One-liners

[Ardent Lady]

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

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

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 whiskey and car keys to teenage boys
P. J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

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

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 Congress does it.
Unknown

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 taxman 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, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress.
Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians!
Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson

[SAWgunner4fun]

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

So true it hurts.

[Warriorwife]

[Daisey]

[Towedjmpr]

Most excellent.

[AmyDoll]

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.)

So true, So true

[SmileyTFJ]

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson

Very True!

Thanks AL! Great Quotes!!

[Creeping Death]

A liberal is someone who is so open minded that their brains have fallen out.

Unknown

[SkyShark]

My favorite is,

" No really, I think I can beat him."-------------John Kerry

[AmyDoll]

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire

A danger sign of the lapse from true skepticism in to dogmatism is an inability to respect those who disagree - Dr. Leonard George

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for those despise we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - riedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. - Justice William O. Douglas

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. - Benjamin Franklin, 1722

In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded. - Retiring Judge Neil Denison, who as Common Serjeant of London since 1993 was one of Britain's most prominent judges, as quoted by the London Daily Telegraph.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. - Hugo L Black, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court - Concurring opinion in 6-3 ruling that upheld the press’s right to publish the Pentagon Papers, 30 Jun 71

Freedom of Press is limited to those who own one. - H.L. Menken

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene, British novelist

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship. - Aryeh Neier, Civil Libertarian

You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind -- where children denounce their parents to the police -- where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world. - Winston Churchill, explaining why Nazism is the enemy of Democracy in a BBC radio address - 10/16/1938

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer not to me. - Larry Flynt

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it - Mark Twain

I'm getting tired of ... all this stupid bullshit we have to listen to all time about 'Children'. It's all you hear in this country. "Children ... Help the Children ... What about the Children? ... Save the Children". You know what I say?... Fuck the children! - George Carlin

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every man has a right to knock him down for it. - Dr. Samuel Johnson English author, lexicographer

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. - John Adams

The Internet is the next Kent State, and we're the ones who are probably going to get shot. - Yetzer-Ra, Hacker - Quoted in Inside the world of a 'hactivist', by Deborah Radcliff (cnn.com), October 18, 2000

And you have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it... - The Clash, "Know Your Rights"

We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech. - Kathleen Dixon, the director of the women's studies department at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government". - Lenny Bruce



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[Silverback]

Amy,
Once again your camoflague is slipping and your liberal is showing.

[VAK]

"I am going to fuck you with this cigar while you're using those hog jowls to please me in a way Hillary hasn't since she tricked me into riding on my coat tails to power..." President Clinton

[AbnRgr289]

"I am going to fuck you with this cigar while you're using those hog jowls to please me in a way Hillary hasn't since she tricked me into riding on my coat tails to power..." President Clinton

You just dont stop do you?

[keepsmilin]

I

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer not to me. - Larry Flynt

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it - Mark Twain

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That dirtbag Flynt certainly doesn't belong on the same page littering his garbage mouth anywhere near a quote by a genius like Mark Twain...

We must have a wet behind the ears newbie from our sadly Liberal Public Educational System posting his crap ...
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We could only hope that Flynt would get the hell out of this country!!!
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Flynt: 'I'll flee if Bush wins'
02/11/2004 15:50 - (SA)

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