This is the last in the series of interesting quotes to start out your New Year with some wit. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -Will Rogers
-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.
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
Very interesting prespective Kathleen. All true of course. Happy New Year. Hot Meez chick, hahah.
Kathleen: All great quotes. And all quotes I'd never heard before. You clearly have a sense of humor very similar to my own. Happy New Year!
Kathy - Happy New Year to you, The Meez is supposed to be my daughter/partner - blonde hair and big blue eyes with looooong lashes.
William - they are still funny , but then I do have a warped sense of humor.
Tim - Some of the dates on these are from long ago - so either the authors were very forward thinking or things haven't changed much!
Kathleen, you said you have a warped sense of humor
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. " -- Now that's funny! Thanks
Mary, You are welcome and right, apparently our sense of humor is a bit similar.
Chuck - As a purveyor of pearly wisdom yourself, I could see why you enjoyed these.
Cynthia - You are welcome - I like hearing others words of wisdom-they are still appropriate to our life today.
Thanks for sharing these great quotes. You've made me laugh and cry at the same time.
there Kathleen
I sure did get a real hoot, from these quotes. Will Rogers and Mark Twain, always had a way with words.
Thanks Dale - they really did have a way with words and their words live on.
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