25 trues

[Red Logan #12252]

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. The Beatles even wrote a song about it from

the White Album. "I'm the Tax Man." Jim Trousdale.9/09/11

-- 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

[Professor Tull, SASS #66742]

Also from Will Rogers -

 

Be thankful we are not getting all the government we are paying for.

 

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

 

Tull

[Wolfgang, SASS #53480]

Good things to be reminded of once in a while. ....

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. Will Rogers

 

[Sheriff Oso, SASS #57788L]

BTW- The Beatles "Taxman" song is NOT on the White Album. It is on REVOLVER.

 

FWIW

SOso