15 Great Truths

[Snipersnest]

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. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.


-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

7. 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)

8. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.


-- Will Rogers

9. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!


-- P.J. O'Rourke

10. 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)

11. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.


-- Mark Twain (1866)

12. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.


-- Anonymous

13. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.


-- Ronald Reagan

14. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.


-- Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

15. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.


-- Thomas Jefferson




FIVE BEST SENTENCES

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth 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!

[AutoMag]

So true!!!

[Riverpigusmc]

And that is the way it is

[TLE2]

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... (Jefferson quoting Beccaria)

... tyrants accomplish their purposes ...by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms. - Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840

These would be in my sig line if I could figure out where to edit it!

[Big Smoke]

Originally Posted by Snipersnest

GREAT TRUTHS

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.


-- George Bernard Shaw

Strange quote from Shaw considering he was such a huge Progressive Socialist and NAZI supporter. Glenn Beck played some frightening footage of Shaw proclaiming killing the masses of people who didn't succumb to Socialism. Scary man.

[Mike45]

I always like:

Government should "do little and do it slowly". -- Don Antonio de Mendoza

[Roverron]

This has to be the year that We The People take back our country from the azzclowns currently trying to turn us into a socialist state.

[Snipersnest]

Originally Posted by TLE2

These would be in my sig line if I could figure out where to edit it!

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