These are quotes to read to your children at the table one night while they eat. We often can absorb and digest new ideas if we are eating at the same time.
"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 taxes Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support
of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
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)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers
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.)
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, 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
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
NOW, after you read those quotes to the kiddies,
to see how many 'get them.'
and how many of your kids DO NOT get them,
which should occasion a
soft, careful EXPLAINING of realities ...then
take them to see 44 US Presidents -
George Washington to Barack Obama here, online.
It's a Seamless Transition
from one photo to another! It would be interesting
to know how this is
done. Turn up the volume. Forty-four presidents,
backed by Ravel's Bolero.
http://www.flixxy.com/presidents-morphing.htm
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