Friday Funny: GREAT TRUTHS

[El Presidente]

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. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

 

8. 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)

 

9. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers

 

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

 

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

 

12. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous

 

13. 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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson

 

[BigGuns]

Flirting with Rule #2, but I dig it

[Li Bai]

If I may, as I see there are lots of Mark Twain's quotes:

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.