GREAT TRUTHS

Submitted by: Kathy Hawkins

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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