GREAT TRUTHS AND OTHER BITS OF WISDOM

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. Giving money and power to 

government is like giving whiskey 

and car keys to teenage boys. 

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

8. 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)

9. I don't make jokes. 

I just watch the government 

and report the facts. 

-- Will Rogers

10 If you think health care is 

expensive now, wait until you 

see what it costs when it's free! 

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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 inherent vice of capitalism is 

the unequal sharing of the blessings. 

The inherent blessing of socialism 

is the equal sharing of misery. 

-- Winston Churchill

14 The only difference between a 

tax man and a taxidermist is that 

the taxidermist leaves the skin. 

-- Mark Twain

15 There is no distinctly 

Native American criminal class, 

save Congress. 

-- Mark Twain

16 What this country needs are 

more unemployed politicians 

--Edward Langley,

Artist (1928-1995)

17 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 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!

Can you think of a reason for not sharing this?

Neither could I.