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'If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.'
- Mark Twain

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

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
- Mark Twain (1866)

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
- Mark Twain

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
- Unknown
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)

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, Economist (1801-1850)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers


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