I love Mark Twain quotes.
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. 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 and 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.
-- 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 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!
-- 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 and 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 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 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. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to
public office.
-- Aesop
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!
I wanted to post this on another site, but I figured they would complain it was to political.
