Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-12-02 Dec 2, 2002Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it.~ Cullen HightowerThere are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.~ Franklin P. AdamsGovernment'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 Nov 29, 2002It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will.~ Adam SmithIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.~ Adam Smith Nov 28, 2002Useless laws weaken necessary laws.~ Charles-Louis de SecondatA government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.~ George Bernard ShawNo man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the congress is in session.~ Mark Twain Nov 27, 2002Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.~ Douglas CaseyWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.~ P. J. O'Rourke Nov 26, 2002It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.~ Frederic BastiatIn general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print