Simple Yet Great Truths

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GREAT TRUTHS


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 Case,
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 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
 
What's the difference between a dead squirrel laying on the road, or a dead politician laying on the road..?..the squirrel has skid marks in front of it.
 
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Is one of my favorites. According to Wikipedia, it's a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of to bolster weak arguments.

Anytime I hear a statistic, this quote comes to mind. You can make up some pretty silly statistics for any argument. For example...100% of Americans with a TV in their household end up dead. So are TV's deadly?!
 
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