Great Quotes by Great Men~ ( Archived) (69)

"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