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« on: July 14, 2008, 10:07:03 pm » |
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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
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« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2008, 11:38:55 pm » |
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"The Politics of Failure have Failed....we need to make them work again." -Kang and Kodos, Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 7.
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« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2008, 11:40:24 pm » |
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A more serious one is:
"It is not tyranny we desire, it is a just, limited, federal government." - Alexander Hamilton
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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2008, 10:06:41 am » |
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My favorite quote, in general...
"It is never too late to become what you might have been. -- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
...political quote...
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch."
For which I follow up with...
"Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
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« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2008, 10:57:51 am » |
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"Its better to be tried by twelve than carried by six"
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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson
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« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2008, 09:41:22 pm » |
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« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2008, 05:02:49 pm » |
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"Its a trap!"  |
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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson
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« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2008, 09:36:11 pm » |
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A more serious one is:
"It is not tyranny we desire, it is a just, limited, federal government." - Alexander Hamilton
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. |
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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2008, 07:53:59 am » |
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I have seen this attributed to Ringo Starr:
"Everything the government touches turns to crap."
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« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2008, 01:36:33 am » |
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"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.  |
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"The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery."
-Barry M. Goldwater, "The Conscience of a Conservative"
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2008, 10:30:42 am » |
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How about:
"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a
wreck being towed to the scrap heap." A. Rand
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"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
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2008, 10:39:17 am » |
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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
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« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2008, 09:08:49 pm » |
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Ben Franklin is great, you could get a whole almanac out of him. "That all men are equal is a proposition
to which, at ordinary times, no sane
individual has ever given his assent." A. Huxley 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... |
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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2008, 09:58:53 am » |
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...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? |
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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2008, 10:52:23 am » |
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...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. |
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