GREAT TRUTHS

GREAT TRUTHS

 

1. In my many years I have come to a
    conclusion that one useless man

    is a shame, two is a law firm,

    and three or more is a congress.

    -- John Adams

 

2. If you don't read the newspaper

    you are uninformed, if you do

    read the newspaper you are

    misinformed. -- Mark Twain

 

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And

    suppose you were a member of

    Congress. But then I repeat

    myself. -- Mark Twain

 

4. 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

 

5. A government which robs Peter to

    pay Paul can always depend on

    the support of Paul. -- George

    Bernard Shaw

 

6. 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

 

7. Democracy must be something

    more than two wolves and a sheep

    voting on what to have for

    dinner. --James Bovard, Civil

    Libertarian (1994)

 

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a

    transfer of money from poor

    people in rich countries to rich

    people in poor countries.

    -- Douglas Case,

    Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University .

 

9. Giving money and power to

    government is like giving whiskey

    and car keys to teenage boys.

    -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

 

10. Government is the great fiction,

      through which everybody

      endeavors to live at the expense

      of everybody else. -- Frederic

      Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)

 

11. 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)

 

12. I don't make jokes. I just watch

      the government and report the

      facts. -- Will Rogers

 

13. If you think health care is

      expensive now, wait until you

      see what it costs when it's free!

      -- P. J. O'Rourke

 

14. 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)

 

15. 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.)

 

16. No man's life, liberty, or

      property is safe while the

      legislature is in session.

      -- Mark Twain (1866)

 

17. Talk is cheap, except when

      Congress does it. -- Anonymous

 

18. The government is like a baby's

      alimentary canal, with a happy

      appetite at one end and no

      responsibility at the other.

      -- Ronald Reagan

 

19. 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

 

20. The only difference between a

      tax man and a taxidermist is that

      the taxidermist leaves the skin.

      -- Mark Twain

 

21. The ultimate result of shielding

      men from the effects of folly is

      to fill the world with fools.

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

 

22. There is no distinctly Native

      American criminal class, save

      Congress. -- Mark Twain

 

23. What this country needs are

      more unemployed politicians

      --Edward Langley,
            Artist (1928-1995)

 

24. A government big enough to give

      you everything you want, is

      strong enough to take everything

      you have.  -- Thomas Jefferson

 

25. We hang the petty thieves and

      appoint the great ones to public

     office. -- Aesop

 

FIVE BEST SENTENCES

 

1. You cannot legislate the poor into

    prosperity, by legislating the

    wealthy out of prosperity.

 

2. What one person receives without

    working for, another person must

    work for without receiving.

 

3. The government cannot give to

    anybody anything that the

    government does not first take

    from somebody else.

 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by

    dividing it.

 

5. 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!

 

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