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    Post  TRANCOSO on Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:14 pm

    True Wisdom - Great Quotes To Remember

    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 consist 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

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    Re: Quotes

    Post  TRANCOSO on Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:34 am

    “I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms”
    - Casanova

    "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
    - Gold Hat - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    “The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.”
    - Bill Gates

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