AlamoPA Mailing List: 25 Great Sentences

[Bob Heiser (w7ikt]

 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  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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God Bless,
Bob (W7IKT) & Carol (N5CBQ) Heiser
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