GREAT TRUTHS
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. Democracy must be something
more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
–James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of
money from poor people in rich countries
to rich people in poor countries.
— Douglas Case,
Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University .
9. Giving money and power to
government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys.
— P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction,
through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense
of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat,
French economist(1801-1850)
11. 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)
12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch
the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is
expensive now, wait until you
see what it costs when it’s free!
— P. J. O’Rourke
14. 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)
15. 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.)
16. No man’s life, liberty, or
property is safe while the
legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap, except when
Congress does it. — Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby’s
alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other.
— Ronald Reagan
19. 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
20. The only difference between a
tax man and a taxidermist is that
the taxidermist leaves the skin.
— Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding
men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
— Herbert Spencer, English
Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly Native
American criminal class, save
Congress. — Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are
more unemployed politicians
–Edward Langley,
Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and
appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
FIVE BEST SENTENCES
1. You cannot legislate the poor into
prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without
working for, another person must
work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to
anybody anything that the
government does not first take
from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by
dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the
idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
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Football Quotes
#2. “After you retire, there’s only one big event left… and I ain’t ready for that.” — Bobby Bowden/Florida State
#3. “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” — Lou Holtz/Arkansas
#4. “When you win, nothing hurts.” — Joe Namath/Alabama
#5. “Motivation is simple.. You eliminate those who are not motivated.” — Lou Holtz/Arkansas
#6. “If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, ‘Roll, tide, roll!’” — Bear Bryant/Alabama
#7. “A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.” — Frank Leahy/Notre Dame
#8. “There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.” — Woody Hayes/Ohio State
#9. “I don’t expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.” — Bob Devaney/Nebraska
#10. “In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Bear Bryant.” — Wally Butts/Georgia
#11. “You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.” — Paul Dietzel/LSU
#12. “It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.” — Bear Bryant/Alabama
#13. When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world: “No, but you can see it from here.” — Lou Holtz/Arkansas
#14. “I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.” — Bear Bryant/Alabama
#15. “There’s one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.” — Matty Bell/SMU
#16. “Lads, you’re not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.” — Frank Leahy/Notre Dame
#17. “I never graduated from Iowa, but I was there for two terms — Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.” — Alex Karras/Iowa
#18. “My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.” — Bowden Wyatt/Tennessee
#19. “I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.” — Duffy Daugherty/Michigan State
#20. “Always remember… Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.” — Shug Jordan/Auburn
#21. “They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that’s real small pieces.” — Darrell Royal/Texas
#22. “Show me a good and gracious loser, and I’ll show you a failure.” — Knute Rockne/Notre Dame
#23. “They whipped us like a tied up goat.” — Spike Dykes/Texas Tech
#24. “I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me and he said: ‘Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren’t any good.’” — Walt Garrison/Oklahoma State
#25. “Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.” — Bobby Bowden/Florida State
#26. “Football is not a contact sport — it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.” — Duffy Daugherty/Michigan State
#27. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: “All those who need showers, take them.” — John McKay/USC
#28. “If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.” — Murray Warmath/Minnesota
#29. “The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.” — Knute Rockne/Notre Dame
#30. “Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.” — Spike Dykes/Texas Tech
#31. “It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.” — Knute Rockne/Notre Dame
#32. “We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches…” — Darrell Royal/Texas
#33. “We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking..” — Wilson Matthews/Little Rock Central High School
#34. “Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.” — Darrell Royal/University of Texas
#35. “I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.” — Knute Rockne/Notre Dame
#36. “Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.” — John Heisman