Thursday, February 2, 2017

Timeless truth


 
GREAT TIMELESS TRUTH

     "In my many years I have come to a conclusion, ... that one useless man is a shame,   two [useless men] is a law firm and three or more [useless men] is a government."
 ~John

 Adams "If you don't read  the newspaper you are  uninformed, if you do
 read the newspaper you are  misinformed." (Would the Observer qualify?)~Mark

 
 Twain "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 

 
"A government which  robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on
 the support of  Paul."~George Bernard Shaw 

 
"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 
"Giving  money and  power to  government is like giving
 whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."~P.J. O'Rourke, 

 
 Civil Libertarian "Government is the great fiction,  through which everybody endeavours to
live at the expense of everybody  else."~Frederic Bastia,  
French economist(1801-1850)
 
"I  don't make jokes. I just watch the government and
 report the facts." ~Will  Rogers 

 
"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)

 
 "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.) 

 
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the
 legislature is in session."~Mark Twain  (1866) 

 
"Talk is cheap...except when government does  it."~Anonymous
 
 "The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy
 appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."~
Ronald  Reagan 
  "The  only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that
 the taxidermist leaves the skin."~Mark Twain 
 
"What this country needs are more unemployed
 politicians."~Edward Langley,  Artist (1928-1995) 

 
"A  government big enough to give you everything you want,
 is strong enough to take everything you have."
 ~Thomas Jefferson 

 
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
 office."~Aesop 

 
"If you think henkgh care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"~P.J.  O'Rourke 
 

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