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  Calmlady February 16, 2010 at 8:51pm

  Thanks for posting these quotes Barron it is always good to read words of wisdom from the past and see how they relate to the hear and now.
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  Vagelis4VP February 16, 2010 at 4:39pm

  lol...great sayings..thanx for posting..i will spread... :)))))
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  3rfl3nfqndi4s February 16, 2010 at 3:05pm

  Thanks for sharing these, Barron. I've always felt a great affinity for Mark Twain, especially. His comments are so typically Sagittarian. Love that tongue-in-cheek, subtle humor!!! And, isn't Truth stranger than fiction? LOL
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  Barron February 16, 2010 at 8:02am

  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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    Silent Observer > Barron February 17, 2010 at 10:38pm

    You can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink it