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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

A Collection of humorous comments..

 "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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