“The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.” – Cicero , 55 BC
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, a debt which he proposes to pay off
with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy
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
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.)
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
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything
you have. — Thomas Jefferson
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. – Anonymous
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. – Anonymous
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take
from somebody else. – Anonymous
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. – Anonymous
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation! – Anonymous
