Shamelessly lifted from a posting elsewhere.
Some quotes that seem appropriate here
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
· 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
· 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 George town University
· Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat , French economist(1801-1850)
· 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 Parliament does it. -- Anonymous
· The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
· 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
· A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson
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May I add the lavatory door graffiti of the '70s?
Fighting for peace is like copulating for virginity.
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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<<
I would put a crisp new 20 euro note - for what it's worth - on the fact that someone wrote that for him.
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>> I would put a crisp new 20 euro note - for what it's worth -
>> on the fact that someone wrote that for him.
My schoolmate Tez defined a baby as an alimentary canal with a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other c1975. I don't think he claimed originality even then.
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My favourite though is
Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what can you do for your country.
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>>defined a baby as an alimentary
Always thought that was Churchill. Might be wrong.
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>>My schoolmate Tez defined a baby as an alimentary canal with a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other c1975.
>> I don't think he claimed originality even then.
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I have known this quote for many decades maybe its because it has been around longer than me :-)
Penned by
Ronald Knox (English Writer and Theologian, 1888-1957) says Google
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle.
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'all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing'.
Edmund Burke.
One of my favourites.
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'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.'
Homer Simpson
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Some quotes for the times in which we live. - bathtub tom
