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 is 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      FIVE BEST SENTENCES   1. You cannot legislate the poor into   prosperity, by legislating the wealthy 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!   Can you think of a reason for not sharing this? Neither could I.