Great Quotes To Start The New Year

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[bushbiker]

No wonder the idealists get so discouraged...

1. Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of of Congress -- but I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

2. *We 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

3. *A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw

4. *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

5. *Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. --Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

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 is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. --Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

9. *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)

10. *I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --Will Rogers

11. *If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. --P.J. O'Rourke

12. *If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. --Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)

13. *In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. --Voltaire (1764)

14. *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.)

15. *No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. --Mark Twain (1866)

16. *Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. --(Unknown)

17. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. --Ronald Reagan

18. *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

19. *The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. --Mark Twain

20. *The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

21. *There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress. --Mark Twain

22. *What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995

[bushbiker]

I did not validate any of them, but who cares they are funny.

[thesummerwind]

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. - Groucho

[Conspiracy Guy]

"Being moved to chat is not as bad as being pulled, but it still sucks!" Conspiracy Guy 12/31/03

[thesummerwind]

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho

[thesummerwind]

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. - Groucho

[Conspiracy Guy]

"No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonsai

[thesummerwind]

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing ....... if you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho

[bushbiker]

Groucho was great, but Twain was the best!

[thesummerwind]

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho

[thesummerwind]

“Talk is cheap. Free speech isn’t.”

[thesummerwind]

Yes, but Will Rogers was no schlump!!!! But, I'll get back to this later!

Twain was the greatest, I agree! What a man!!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

"Will Rogers never met me". Conspiracy Guy 1982.

[Conspiracy Guy]

"When you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." Henry Ford

[Conspiracy Guy]

"I don't hate all people, just the living ones." Hillary Clinton

[Conspiracy Guy]

"I did not have sex with that woman, that Hillary Clinton!" Bill Clinton

[bushbiker]

We've got so much taxation. I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed except the answer to
prayer.
Twain- Morals speech, 1906

[bushbiker]

" Laugh now monkey boy " Professor Lizzardo

[Conspiracy Guy]

"NOOOOOOOOOOO One expected the Spanish Inquisition!" Monty Python

[bushbiker]

Getting off track but...

" My Uncle says smoking crack is kinda cool " -Cartman

[Conspiracy Guy]

"They killed Kenny, the Bastards". Various