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To: LadyX; COB1; Scuttlebutt; razorback-bert; Billie; beowolf; Fred Mertz; humblegunner; Eaker; ...
I've been so busy lately there has been little time for things that are really rewarding, such as FR. Spliting logs is rewarding, but is tough on the old man. Hopefully, all of you are well and, like us, just wish the elections would get over with, naturally with our candidates winning easily.

Wife's COPD is no better or worse, but she is fine, as is Thud, who hates snow.

FReeper daughter sent me these, which may have been posted earlier, and may or may not be actual quotes:

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 (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
--Douglas Casey (1992)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
--P.J. O'Rourke

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
--Frederic Bastiat

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)

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

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

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 are safe while the legislature is in session.
--Mark Twain (1866)

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

Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. 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

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
--Mark Twain

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
--P.J. O'Rourke (1993

We 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

237 posted on 10/29/2002 7:12:38 AM PST by ofMagog
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To: ofMagog
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --Will Rogers

I love this guy...LOL!

Glad to hear your wife is doing fine...been praying for her.

239 posted on 10/29/2002 7:32:12 AM PST by Aquamarine
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To: ofMagog
What great quotes! One of my favorite things to do is collecting them. It is so much fun to slip them into a conversation................leaving one's fellow conversant speechless.
242 posted on 10/29/2002 8:55:19 AM PST by Salvation
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