Ancient Wit

Miss Mary
on 10/17/08 3:15 pm - Huntsville, AL

 Ancient Wit 
 
'If you don't read the newspaper
You are uninformed, if you do 
Read the newspaper you are 
Misinformed.'
Mark Twain
 



          
 
Suppose you were an idiot. 
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But, then I repeat myself.
          -Mark Twain
 


        


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




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


             
 



Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
 -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)


                                   
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


 

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys t o teenage boys. 
 -P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian


 
 
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. 
 -Frederic Bastiat,  Economist (1801-1850)
 
 


      
 
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)

 


             
 
I don't make jokes. I jus****ch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers

 


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

 


            
 
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)

 


                  
 
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.)
 

 


     
     
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No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
 Mark Twain (1866)
 

           
 
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.  

 -Unknown

 


                

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

 



                       
  

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


                    
 
        
 
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. Mark Twain
 


                       
 
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
 -Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995) 


         

               
 
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 

-Thomas Jefferson





The End

 
SCushway
on 10/17/08 10:31 pm - Daphne, AL
Sooo true!

 Capitol Hill  Democrat Donkey  vs. Republican Elephant  =   Vote

 

      

 

Vickie G.
on 10/18/08 1:50 am - AL
 I just Love you to pieces


Nothing tastes as good as being thinner feels.

I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I'm doing.


"Obstacles are what we see when we take our eyes off the goal." 






      

                                                                                                          

                                                              

 

                                                               
               
                                           
                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               









                                                 





















  























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