Absolutely Profound
(Humor Based on Truth)
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 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
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