[Healeys] Friday Truisms

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> Suppose you were an idiot. And  suppose you were a member of Congress. But
> then I repeat myself.
>  -Mark Twain
> 
> 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
> 
> A  government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
>  of Paul.
> -George Bernard Shaw
> 
> Democracy must be  something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on 
> what to have  for dinner.
> -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
> 
>  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
> 
> Giving money  and power to government is like giving whiskey and car 
> keys to teenage  boys.
> -P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
> 
> I don't  make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
> -Will  Rogers
> 
> If you think health care is expensive now, wait until  you see what it 
> costs when it's free!
> -P.J.  O'Rourke
> 
> 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)
> 
> 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.)
> 
> No man's life, liberty, or  property is safe while the legislature is in
> session.
> -Mark  Twain (1866)
> 
> Talk is cheap...except when Congress does  it.
> -Unknown
> 
> 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
>
> The only difference between a tax man and a  taxidermist is that the
> taxidermist leaves the skin.
> -Mark  Twain
> 
> The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of  folly is to fill
> the world with fools.
> -Herbert Spencer, English  Philosopher (1820-1903)
>
> There is no distinctly native American  criminal class...save Congress.
> -Mark Twain
> 
> What this  country needs are more unemployed politicians.
> -Edward Langley, Artist  (1928 - 1995)
>
> A government big enough to give you everything you  want is strong 
> enough to take everything you have.
> -Thomas  Jefferson
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