Best Five Sentences

08/11/11 | Web

[existentialist]

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth 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.

[jmacusa]

How about “They were the best of times, they were the worst of times’’.

[jmacusa]

Vladimir Putin is a soul-less, ruthless ex-KGB killer who would have killed his own mother if he’d been ordered to do so. He knows about as much about economics as a newborn does about quantum physics. F him.

[beebuster2000]

Barack Obama aka Barry Sotero ex-conman president was escorted today in an orange jump suit to Indonesia extricating him to his home county.

Even if it isnt a complete sentence it has a nice ring

[mjp]

1) In a free, capitalist, division of labor society, one man's gain is not another man's loss, but instead it is another man's gain.

2) It is to the self interest of everyone that everyone should be free to gain as much as they can morally.

[eartrumpet]

Eschew surplusage. Mark Twain

[VTenigma]

ping

[Brad’s Gramma]

bttt....

[Fred911]

Able was I ere I saw Elba

[aruanan]

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
— Frédéric Bastiat

[ErnBatavia]

7 - “Life in Fort Leavenworth, defendant Obama”

[ErnBatavia]

Ha...see my post 30 which I plugged in before scrolling down.....

[Raycpa]

1. Honey, that headache went away
2. My MIL won’t be able to come for the summer.
3. You seem like you need a break. Why don’t you go play cards with your buddies.
4. Don’t worry about cutting the lawn, I’ll do it this time.
5. I’m sorry you had to work late so I recorded the game for you.

[P.O.E.]

I love when the phone lady says into my ear those three little words every man wants to hear: “No more messages”.

[Flycatcher]

A classic!

"Rise, me boy!"

"Yo, be me, sir?"

[Joe 6-pack]

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

[Lmo56]

A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon you’re talkin’ REAL money ... Senator Everett Dirksen

[seowulf]

When you tax something you get less off it, and when you subsidized something you get more of it.

Therefore, we should tax the poor and subsidize the rich.

No wonder we're so screwed up. We've been doing it backasswards all these years.

[EmilyGeiger]

Very nice. :)

[central_va]

No wonder we're so screwed up. We've been doing it backasswards all these years.

Eat the poor.

[FoxPro]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.