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 Case ,
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 wealthy 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!

Thanks

I've seen several, but agree with every one!

I might add:

"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. (Often quoted as ‘the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money’)
Interview, This Week Thames TV, 5 February 1976

One more:

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”

― John Adams 1826

And considering these past few months...

"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
George Orwell

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
~Malcolm X

Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education - Mark Twain

From Thomas Sowell:

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”

“Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.”

“Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?”

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”