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I 'spect most of these folks are wrong...as far as liberals are concerned.

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 Case,
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
--

Ban idiots, not guns!
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John H. wrote:
I 'spect most of these folks are wrong...as far as liberals are concerned.

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 Case,
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
--

Ban idiots, not guns!


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