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Cigarick Offline
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Joined: 07-28-2002
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1. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

2. We 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

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

4. 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

5. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian

6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, classmate of W.J. Clinton at Georgetown U.

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 is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist

9. 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

10. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers

11. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. -- P.J. O'Rourke

12. If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. -- Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review

13. In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire

14. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. -- Pericles

15. No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

16. Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. -- (Unknown)

17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan

18. 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

19. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain

20. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher

21. There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress. -- Mark Twain

22. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist

23. When buying and selling is controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators.-- J. P. O'Rourke
jgjam Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 05-16-2002
Posts: 909
Good stuff!

John
Charlie Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 06-16-2002
Posts: 39,751
Outstanding!

Charlie
65gtoman Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 06-12-2003
Posts: 858
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


very true..
xibbumbero Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 01-25-2002
Posts: 12,535
Funny stuff. I forget how insiteful W.Rogers,M.Twain and W.Churchill were. X
65gtoman Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 06-12-2003
Posts: 858
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

General Jack D. Ripper
divnmyk Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 06-07-2001
Posts: 461
Very nice. Thank you.
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divnmyk Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 06-07-2001
Posts: 461
65gtoman-
Quick little anecdote about communism.
An electrical engineer I know and worked with loved China and the communist ideas. So much so, that he decided to go to China because in his words, "Everyone works in China. They have almost no unemployment and everyone is content with the communist life."
He went there, asked for a job and the employment agency said, "Yes, we have a job for you... picking vegetables."
My co-worker said, "But I have an electrical engineering degree. I don't have to pick vegetables."
The agent replied, "We don't need an engineer, we need someone to pick vegetables. How bad do you need a job?"
He came back within eight months.
Grass is always greener?

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patman Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 12-22-2003
Posts: 262
There is a a reason that congress opens with prayer every day. Most of them are listed above. We are human, faulted at thh core. The guidance of a perfect God is what we seek and if we are internally obeident to that then we find purpose in the mundaine. Government or not we are destened to have our failures revealed to us until we stop recreating them.
beta362 Offline
#10 Posted:
Joined: 08-07-2003
Posts: 368
Amen to that, Patman!
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