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Yesterday's Quotes Still Apply Today

  • Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But 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, Civil Libertarian (1994)
  • 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 University
  • 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)

  • 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)
  • I don‘t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
    Will Rogers
  • If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it‘s free. 
    P.J. O‘Rourke
  • 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)
  • 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 (1866)
  • Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it.
    Unknown
  • 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
  • What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
    Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
  • A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
    Thomas Jefferson




Dr. Mercola''s Comments Dr. Mercola's Comments:

It appears some political quotes never go out of style, because history has an uncanny tendency to repeat itself.


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Comment on This Article Community Comments (22)
 
 
Posted On Jul 20, 2007
AMEN!

 
Russ Bianchi
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Posted On Jul 20, 2007
Well Said!!

 
Reesacat
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Posted On Jul 20, 2007
I'd laugh if I weren't already crying.

 
Bridestein
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Posted On Aug 11, 2007

Good stuff!  I think the same holds true for yesterday's medical quotes:

"Having good health is very different than only being not sick."

- Seneca the Younger, 50AD

"Nature is the physician of man.”

- Hippocrates

“Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.”

- James Bryce

“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“God heals and the doctor takes the fee.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.”

- Francis Quarles

“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”

- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire]

“Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.”

- Moliere (1622-1672)

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."

- Thomas Edison

“[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."

- Henri-Frederic Amiel 1828-1881

“Most diseases are the result of medication that has been applied to relieve and take away a beneficient and warning symptom on the part of Nature."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pots if you can cure your patient with food."

- Hippocrates, 420BC

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

- William Osler

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

- Voltaire 1778


 
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samurai
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Posted On Aug 11, 2007

Don Quixote,

Thanks for the extra quotes.  They're good.


 
 
 
Posted On Jul 20, 2007
18) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

- Ernest Benn

 
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