"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."  - Ronald Reagan

"We 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

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."  - Steven Weinberg

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."  - Nick Diamos

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."  - Napoleon Bonaparte

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."  - W. B. Prescott

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."  - Buddha

"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 (1994)

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

"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)

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."  - P.J. O'Rourke

"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.)

"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it."  - Ronald Reagan

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