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"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


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


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 to 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, French 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 just watch 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.)


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 inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill


The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects
of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)


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

Never pick up yellow snow
- stooie1971

and if you do, use latex gloves.


The thread won't last long....it's to long...people have short attention spans

I used this last night.. but it always cracks me up..



Lady Astor: Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Winston Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

that's funny

yeah

Yeah, its a long thread mate, but its worth reading!!

The quotes are mainly reflecting how government impedes people and their freedoms. Most of the quotes I find accurate

You must pay the price if you want to secure the blessing - Andrew Jackson

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know; the only ones among youwho will be really happyare thosewho will have sought and found how to serve - Albert Schweitzer

Business is like tennis: Those who serve well win - Ken Blanchard

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well - Margaret Thatcher

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. - Andrew Carnegie

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning - Sir Winston Churchill

He with the most toys when he dies is dead - Unknown

Work keeps us from three evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. - Voltaire

Our culture worships information, but information without application is an empty deity. - Dennis Rainey

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. - Norman Vincent Peale

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will, his personal responsibility. - Albert Schweitzer

When a man refuses to act like a man, his wife will act like his mother. - Ed Cole

Men and women are limited not by their intelligence, nor by their education, nor by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. - John Johnson

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Baldwin

I'm a great believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. - Mike Todd

Cowards can never be moral. - Mahatma Gandhi

More great quotes...

If you ever find true love, or it finds you, never let it slip through your fingers because you may never find it again...

By Daniel

that works too :)

Thanks Indy.. maybe someday I'll be up there with the great men..

find a woman marry her if she's good you'll be happy... if not you'll become a philosopher----- Socrates

its paraphrased, but he did say it

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
~Mark Twain

"Beer, the cause of and solution to, all life's problems. "

-Homer Simpson-

Well, I would not feel so all alone..Everybody must get stoned....Bob Dylan

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

-Frank Zappa-

Life is like a doughnut: Either you're in the dough or in you're in the hole. (Author unknown)

The primary goals of any new administration are to blame the previous administration for all problems while claiming credit for prosperity instigated by them. (Author known but wishing to remain anonymous)

I could see that having potential application