Quotes about the government

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress."
-- John Adams

"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

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
-- James Bovard

"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
-- Douglas Casey

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
-- P.J. O'Rourke

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

"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 (430 B.C.)

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

"Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it."
-- Anonymous

"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

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