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 endeavours 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, subsidise 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

Thanks Kerry