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
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 Case
Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
9. Giving money and power to the government
is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
PJ 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
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!
PJ 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 it 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 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 is
more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley
Artist (1928-1955)
24. A government big enough to give you
everything you want is strong enough
to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and
appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
26. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity
by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
27. What one person receives without working for,
another person must work for without receiving.
28. The government cannot give to anybody
anything that the government does not
first take from somebody else.
29. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
30. When half of the people get the idea that they
don't 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's the beginning of the end of any nation!
