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<p>Hi David;</p>
<p>Lots of quotes here about "government". Here's another one, from Bob Rae speaking when Richard Johnston was retiring from Centennial College (June 16, 2004)</p>
<p><strong>"Our government was an extended example of what happens when the barking dog catches up with the passing car."</strong></p>
<p>History in Ontario may be repeating itself right now, eh?</p>
<p>Stay hopeful;</p>
<p>Allan</p>
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<br />From: David Walsh via craic <craic@lists.integralshift.ca>
<br />Date: January 17, 2021 at 7:20 PM
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;" valign="top"><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; color: maroon;">GREAT TRUTHS</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">is a shame, two is a law firm,</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">and three or more is a congress.</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">-- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">John Adams</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">2. If you don't read the newspaper</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">you are uninformed, if you do</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">read the newspaper you are</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">misinformed. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Mark Twain</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">3. Suppose you were an idiot. And</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">suppose you were a member of</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Congress. But then I repeat</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">myself. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Mark Twain</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">man standing in a bucket and</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">trying to lift himself up by the</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">handle. --</span> <strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Winston Churchill</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">the support of Paul. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">George</span></strong></span> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Bernard Shaw</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">6. A liberal is someone who feels a</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">G Gordon</span></strong></span> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Liddy</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">7. Democracy must be something</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">more than two wolves and a sheep</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">voting on what to have for dinner. --</span> <strong> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">James Bovard</span></strong> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">, </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Civil</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Libertarian (1994)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">8. Foreign aid might be defined as a</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">-- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Douglas Case</span></strong></span> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">,</span> <br /> Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University .</p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">9. Giving money and power to</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">government is like giving whiskey</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">and car keys to teenage boys.</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">-- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">PJ. O'Rourke</span></strong></span> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">, </span>Civil Libertarian</p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">10. Government is the great fiction,</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">through which everybody</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">endeavors to live at the expense</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">of everybody else. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Frederic</span></strong></span> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Bastiat</span></strong> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">, </span>French economist(1801-1850)</p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">11. Government's view of the</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">economy could be summed up</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">in a few short phrases: If it</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">moves, tax it. If it keeps</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">moving, regulate it. And if it</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">stops moving, subsidize it.</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">--</span> <strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Ronald Reagan </span></strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">(1986)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">12. I don't make jokes.</span> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> I just watch</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">the government and report the</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">facts. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Will Rogers</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">13. If you think health care is</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">expensive now, wait until you</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">see what it costs when it's free!</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">-- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">P J. O'Rourke</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">14. In general, the art of government</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">consists of taking as much</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">money as possible from one</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">party of the citizens to give to</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">the other. --</span> <strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Voltaire </span></strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">(1764)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">15. Just because you do not take an</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">interest in politics doesn't mean</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">politics won't take an interest</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">in you! -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Pericles </span></strong></span>(430 B.C.)</p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">16. No man's life, liberty, or</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">property is safe while the</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">legislature is in session.</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">-- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Mark Twain </span></strong>(1866)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">17. Talk is cheap, except when</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Congress does it. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Anonymous</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">18. The government is like a baby's</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">alimentary canal, with a happy</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">appetite at one end and no</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">responsibility at the other.</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">-- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Ronald Reagan</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">19. The inherent vice of capitalism is</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">the unequal sharing of the blessings.</span> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. --</span> <strong> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Winston Churchill</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">20. The only difference between a</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">tax man and a taxidermist is that</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">the taxidermist leaves the skin.</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">--</span> <strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Mark Twain</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">21. The ultimate result of shielding</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">-- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Herbert Spencer</span></strong></span> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">, English<br /> Philosopher (1820-1903)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">22. There is no distinctly Native</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">American criminal class, save</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Congress. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Mark Twain</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">23. What this country needs are</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">more unemployed politicians</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">--</span> <strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Edward Langley</span></strong> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">,<br /> Artist (1928-1995)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">strong enough to take everything</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">you have. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Thomas Jefferson</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">25. We hang the petty thieves and</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">appoint the great ones to public</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">office. -- <strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Aesop</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">FIVE BEST SENTENCES</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">1. You cannot legislate the poor into</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">2. What one person receives without</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">working for, another person must</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">work for without receiving.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">3. The government cannot give to</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">anybody anything that the</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">government does not first take</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">from somebody else.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">4. You cannot multiply wealth by</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">dividing it.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">5. When half of the people get the</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">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</span> <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">beginning of the end of any nation!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Can you think of a reason for not sharing this?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Neither could I.</span></p></td>
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