Sunday, 4 December 2016

Govts

Food for THOUGHT

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion, ... that one useless man is a shame,   two [useless men] is a law firm and three or more useless men] is a government."
 ~John Adams 

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"If you don't read  the newspaper you are  uninformed, if you do
 read the newspaper you are  misinformed." 

~Mark Twain 

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"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 
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 "A government which  robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of  Paul."

~George Bernard Shaw  
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"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 

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"Giving  money and  power to  government is like giving
 whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

~P.J. O'Rourke,  Civil Libertarian 
 

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"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.)  
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"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."

~Mark Twain  (1866)
                               
 
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"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy
 appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."

~ Ronald  Reagan  

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"The  only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."

~Mark Twain  
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"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."

~Edward Langley,  Artist (1928-1995)  
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"A  government big enough to give you everything you want,is strong enough to take everything you have."
 ~Thomas Jefferson  
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

~Aesop  
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"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"

~P.J.  O'Rourke

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