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• 1. echo4charlie  |  November 19th, 2008 at 9:25 am

  I think that he is wrong (Huckabee).

  On the lighter side, here are a few fun quotes:

  ‘If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed,
  if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.’-Mark Twain

  Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress….But then, I repeat myself.-Mark Twain

  No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the
  legislature is in session.-Mark Twain (1866)

  There is no distinctly Native American criminal class…
  save Congress.-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

  Giving money and power to government is like giving
  whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

  If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you
  see what it costs when it’s free! -P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

  Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
  endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.-Frederic Bastiat, Economist (1801-1850)

  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)

  I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report
  the facts. -Will Rogers

  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.)

  Talk is cheap…except when Congress does it.-Unknown

  The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.-Ronald Reagan

  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

• 2. Pat Cunningham  |  November 19th, 2008 at 10:24 am

  Charlie: That last quotation you used is misattributed to Jefferson. He never said any such thing. It was Gerald Ford. See this:
  http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Government_big_enough_to_supply_you

• 3. Milton Waddams  |  November 19th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

  Good quotes Charlie, thanks for the laughs.

• 4. echo4charlie  |  November 19th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  Thanks Pat,

  That was one that came in an e-mail. One can never be too sure of the accuracy.

  My pleasure, Mr. Waddams.

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