[BITList] Great Quotes

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    *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

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    *2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
    read the newspaper you are most likely misinformed.
    - Mark Twain

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    *3. Suppose you were an idiot.. And suppose you were a member of
    Congress. But then I'm repeating myself.
    - Mark Twain

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    *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
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    *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 worked for, that is the
    beginning of the end of any nation!

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