These have been around before -- however, it's been a while, so this is your
refresher course!!!


25 great truths & possibly 5 of the best sentences you'll ever read:


25 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 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 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


FIVE OF THE BEST SENTENCES

1.  You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out
of prosperity.


2.  What one person receives without working for...another person must work for
without receiving.


3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not
first take from somebody else.


4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because
the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the
idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what
they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!


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Larry, you are a font of great knowledge!   

Naw.............I just copy stuff well.................you shouldn't encourage me.........I'll just keep posting.....................stuff!