Wednesday, April 19, 2017

On a Lighter Note -Words of Wisdom-You Decide

more just a departure from Verdun/Montreal topics and a brief escape for humour.




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, a 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.
-- 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 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

1 comment:

BobB said...

Love them, Les