Anti Government Quotes

[Lloyd Danforth]

A friend sent these today and, although, I'm sure you've all seen most of them, a couple were new for me.
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1) Suppose you were an idiot.

And suppose you were a member of Congress.

But then I repeat myself

............Mark Twain



2) 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





3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always

depend on the support of Paul.

...........George Bernard Shaw



4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow

man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

............G Gordon Liddy



5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves

and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

..........James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)



6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from

poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor

countries.


............Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown

Univ.




7) 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, French Economist (1801-1850)



9) 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)



10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and

report the facts.

.............Will Rogers



11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until

you see what it costs when it's free.

.......P.J. O'Rourke



12) 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)



13) 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.)



14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the

legislature is in session.

.........Mark Twain (1866)



15) Talk is cheap .. except when Congress does it.

........ Ronio. 2005


16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal,

with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility

at the other.

...........Ronald Reagan



17) 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



18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist

is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

........Mark Twain



19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of

folly is to fill the world with fools.

.........Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)



20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class...

save Congress.

..........Mark Twain



21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

..........Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)



22) A government big enough to give you everything you

want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

..........Thomas Jefferson

[AlanM]

Thanks for the laughs Lloyd!  There were a few I had never seen.

[KBCraig]

23) "Bite de dog catcher in de ass an' run por jou libe!"
-- wholetthedogin

[AlanM]

23) "Bite de dog catcher in de ass an' run por jou libe!"
-- wholetthedogin

Yes. Definitely!
Take a bite out of crime! 

[Tom Sawyer]

"Fuck you.  Strong letter to follow."
-- Doug Thompson, publisher of  Capitol Hill Blue, responding on March 6 to an FBI national security letter demanding traffic data, payment records, and other information about his Web site.

[Atlas]

Trading liberty for security is like trading a $100 bill for a kick in the teeth.--Alex Jones

[aries]

"Fuck you.  Strong letter to follow."
-- Doug Thompson, publisher of  Capitol Hill Blue, responding on March 6 to an FBI national security letter demanding traffic data, payment records, and other information about his Web site.

Did he ever follow up?

The National Security Letter, isn't that the name of the judgeless warrants that FBI ociffers are "allowed" to write?

[Tunga]

"Fuck you.  Strong letter to follow."
-- Doug Thompson, publisher of  Capitol Hill Blue, responding on March 6 to an FBI national security letter demanding traffic data, payment records, and other information about his Web site.

Did he ever follow up?

The National Security Letter, isn't that the name of the judgeless warrants that FBI ociffers are "allowed" to write?

Yup, and yer not allowed to talk about it for a full year are ya Doug? Doug? Hello? Is this thing even on?

[aries]

Satius est impunitum relinqui facinus nocentis, quam innocentem damnari.
"It is better that a guilty man go free than an innocent man be punished"

The opposite of progress is congress.

Government is good at breaking your legs, giving you crutches, and saying, 'See? Without government you wouldn't be able to walk.'

Mei juris, et tu, tui juris.
"I am my own judge, and you yours"

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.  We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.  It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." - Samuel Adams, 1771.

Sic semper tyrannis.
"As always to tyrants" - Brutus said to Caesar before killing him.

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."
- EB White

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
-Ayn Rand

"Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave." - William Pitt English statesman

"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And, it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
-Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court (1939-75)

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
- Nikita Khrushchev

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-1984

"Governments never learn. Only people learn."
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."
-Friedman

"The 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

...but the US foreign policy makes as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first battle of Antietam. I mean, when a neoconservative defenestrates, it's like Raskalnikov filibuster deoxymonohydroxinate.
-Family Guy 

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
-Thomas Jefferson, 1801

Men often believe -- or pretend -- that the "Law" is something sacred, or at least a science -- an unfounded assumption very convenient to governments.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Never trust a government that doesnt trust its own citizens with guns.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-P.J. O'Rourke

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
-Samuel Adams

It is better, the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
-Justice William O. Douglas

With money we will get men, Caesar said, and with men we will get money.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws are free.

Live Free or Die. Death is not the worst of evils.

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
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And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
-Thomas Jefferson

I just copied that sampling out of my gigantic quotes.txt file

[Tunga]

The right of the People to be secure in thier Persons, places, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seziures, shall not be violated and no Warrents shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affermation, and particularly describing the places to be searched and the persons and things to be seized.

[MTPorcupine3]

The price we pay for money is paid in liberty. -Robert Louis Stevenson,
novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

[MTPorcupine3]

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. -Francis
Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)

Hmm. I guess that explains the term blockhead.