Some quotes for our times--from times before

Will Rogers

 

 

 The following seventeen quotes are part of an email sent to me by an uncle in Oak Ridge TN in mid-November, 2015.
 

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams

 

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

 

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

 

4. 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
 

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

6. 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
 

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'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)
 

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

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

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

12. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. – Anonymous
 

13. 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
 

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

15. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. – Mark Twain
 

16. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. --Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
 

17. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson
 

            NOW, I’ll pull out a favorite resource, “Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for our time” by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, in the section called “Past/ Present/ Future.”

1.      Let us not go over the old ground, let us rather prepare for what is to come. – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

2.      Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. – Peter Drucker.

3.      My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. –Charles F. Kettering.

That about sums it up, doesn’t it?

Happy 2016.