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    Posted by Sleuth on February 23, 2015, 12:12 pm



    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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    • GREAT TRUTHS - Sleuth February 23, 2015, 12:12 pm