This is the first in the series of quotes to start out your New Year with wit.

                    
             
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, 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