25 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 Casey , Classmate of Bill Clinton at George town 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 Roger   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

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