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Quotations with more truth than when spoken

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These should be required reading for all citizens!

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
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 & 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.
-- Rockwell 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 & 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 & 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 & 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.
--Anonymous

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. The biggest difference between Republicans and Democrats is the
spelling.
-- Anonymous

26. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who
are willing to work and give to those who would not.
--Thomas Jefferson

THERE AIN'T NO TICKS LIKE POLY TICKS----BLOODSUCKERS ALL!
-- Davy Crockett
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Front page ownage here I come...Hi Terry....
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