Great truths

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    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 crimina
     
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