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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

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

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

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French 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

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!
-P ericles (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 government is like a baby's alimentary canal: a healthy 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

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


Note: I shamelessly stole this great post from another forum.
 

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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

even back in the day? somethings never change

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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

I always liked the grumpy old man

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

no fucking chit man
 

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I forget who said it...might have been twain but

Any man that wants to be president shouldn't be allowed to be president

Or something like that
 

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Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown
:grandmais
 

the bear is back biatches!! printing cancel....
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y twain is awesome here's some good ones

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
 

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mr twain also said......

put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket
 

Is that a moonbat in my sites?
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They could turn a phrase back then - Robert Louis Stevenson:
"It rained all day the night I left, the weather, it was fine".
 

Honey Badger Don't Give A Shit
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BB gets maudlin: They could turn a phrase back then - Robert Louis Stevenson: "It rained all day the night I left, the weather, it was fine".


SH: Ouch...Stephen Foster is rolling over in his grave

"It rained all day the night I left - the weather it was dry. The sun so hot I froze myself - Susannah don't you cry".

all good...I just got corrected on some famous MotleyCrue lyrics last night that I'd heard wrong for over 20 years.
 

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Stephen Foster, one of America's great composers, died at a tragically early age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster

Robert Louis Stevenson, one of Europe's great authors, was not alive when Oh Susannah was written, but it's likely he enjoyed the tunes of Foster during his later years when he lived in the USA.
 

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