Some GREAT Truths

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! Can you think of a reason for not sharing this? Neither could I. So send your friends and family to this site to read it. .

English: George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, in 1909 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) English: Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (Photo credit: Wikipedia)