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. Giving money and power to  
Government is like giving whiskey  
And car keys to teenage boys  
--P.J. O'Rourke,Civil Libertarian

 

8. 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)

 

9. I don't make jokes.   

I just watch the government

And report the  facts.

--Will Rogers

 

10. If you think health care is  
Expensive now, wait until you  
See what it costs when it's free!  
--P. J. O'Rourke
                   

11. No man's life, liberty, or  
Property is safe while the  
Legislature is in session.  
--Mark Twain(1866)

 

12. Talk is cheap, except when  
Congress does it. --Anonymous

 

13. 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

 

14. The only difference between a  
Tax man and a taxidermist is that  
The taxidermist leaves the skin.  
--   Mark Twain

 

15. There is no distinctly

Native  American criminal class,

Save  Congress.

--Mark Twain   

16. What this country needs are  more unemployed politicians
--Edward Langley,
Artist (1928-1995)

 

17. A government big enough

To give you everything you want,

Is  strong enough to take

Everything  you have.

--Thomas Jefferson

   
 

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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