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I thought we could start a thread of one quote each that really hits home to you.  I will start with this one. 


“I never want my kids to ask, “What did you do dad to try and stop the irresponsible spending that those people in government that put us in debt for hundreds of years to come”?”

                - Unknown Father, August 12, 2003

"The Politics of Failure have Failed....we need to make them work again."  -Kang and Kodos, Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 7.

A more serious one is:

"It is not tyranny we desire, it is a just, limited, federal government." - Alexander Hamilton

"Its better to be tried by twelve than carried by six"

"We're freaking doomed!"

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/MogamboGuru.html

"Its a trap!"

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No, that's funny (Hamilton would have done better to listen to Jefferson).

Here's one:

"Two people is a conversation, three is politics." - overheard from a Republican committee woman in the 1970's.

I have seen this attributed to Ringo Starr:

"Everything the government touches turns to crap."

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

or

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

both Ben Franklin.

Although that Ringo quote is freaking awesome. ;D

How about:

"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a
wreck being towed to the scrap heap." A. Rand

or

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." Bertrand Russell

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."  Bertrand Russell

Sorry,  I thought of another one:

"That all men are equal is a proposition
to which, at ordinary times, no sane
individual has ever given his assent."  A. Huxley

Ben Franklin is great, you could get a whole almanac out of him.


Huxley may be correct, but I think it is true that all humans are born equal in that they all have the same set of inherent rights. It goes downhill from there...

What "inherent rights" are we born with?  What are we entitled to by means of birth?

Apparently to pay taxes and die.

Among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We could probably enumerate some others if we thought about it.

Someone is probably going to post the whole thing about rights not being rights unless one can demand them / enforce them for themselves.  I have a right to life, because I can and will defend my life, with our without anyone else's permission.  Or so the theory goes.  Merely being born (or unborn, for those of us who think that unborn Homo Sapiens count as "humans" too) doesn't give you rights.

I don't agree with this position.  I tend to agree with the more traditional "natural law" derivation of rights.

Very good

"Please don't vote, as it only encourages them."

-- attributed to Doug Casey (www.caseyresearch.com)

"The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!"

- Juvenal, Satires,  Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD)

 

"Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome."

- Robert Heinlein: To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

"But you, like an idiot, wanted to take over the world. Except you didn't realize that there's no world anymore. There's only corporations."

^ This is a quote that aptly describes what we're really up against here: A political machine that, behind the curtain, is controlled by corporations.

I have been using this quote as my sig for quite some time and it's particularly relevant now. I add the lp url at the end.

"...we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude."
--Thomas Jefferson

Tom Purcell, Pgh Trib colunmist, had an article today (11/16/2008) titled, "The truth about government."   It's a collection of quotes, many of which should be appreciated by readers of this site.

www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/purcell/s_598523.html

Here's one of his compiled quotes; this one from a past LP presidential candidate:

"The government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, then hand you a crutch and say, 'See, if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'"   -- Harry Browne

Mark

"WTF?"

 - Anyone who opens his eyes and sees what's really going on.

Government (n.) An appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots.

I think the line is "an appaling DUNG help"...  And let's face it -- the stuff coming from all levels of governments sticks about that bad!!!

This jumped to my top ten list.

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."

- From "Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapons"