Wisdom Or Sarcasm?

** The most beautiful thing we can experiment with is the mystery - Albert Einstein

** Creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place - Bill Gates

** That which I believe most is transitiveness - Thomas Mann

** The most important thing is not to know, but our relationship with others - Arnold Toynbee

** A story or a poem lets us get closer to the texture of what is real - John Updike

** I think the most noble gift of a man is his capacity to change - Albert Bernstein

** Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress ... But then I am repeating myself - Mark Twain

** 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, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

** 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)

** 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 - Pericles (430 B.C.)

** 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)

** What the head makes cloudy, the heart makes very clear - Don Henley

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