By
Terry Orr
(Sharing another email from Nancy – Thanks)
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
taxman 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!
Can
you think of a reason for not sharing this?
Neither
could I.
