Thursday, 30 January 2014

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  Profundities about today's politics. Humourously explained, but true !!! 


 
 
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
 

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