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 logansdad
 
posted on August 16, 2004 10:56:59 AM new
1. *Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.----Mark Twain

2. *We 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

3. *A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.----George Bernard Shaw

4. *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

5. *Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.----James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

6. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. ----Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

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

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

9. *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)

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

11. *If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see whatit costs when it's free. ----P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

12. *If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anyywhere, you're an extremist.----Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)

13. *In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.----Voltaire (1764)

14. *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.)

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

16. *Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. ----(Unknown)

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

18. *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

19. *The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.----Mark Twain

20. *The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ----Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

21. *There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress. ----Mark Twain

22. *What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. ---Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995


Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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YOU CAN'T HAVE BULLSH** WITH OUT BUSH.
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We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union....
.....one Nation indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for ALL.
 
 parklane64
 
posted on August 16, 2004 11:41:11 AM new
You just outed yourself as a Libertarian.

Congratulations. Great post, too!

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Hebrews 13:8
 
 
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