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!
