Give me quotes or give me death!

[RoyalOrleans]

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

 

- Alan Keyes

[wez]

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. ~ Barbara De Angelis

 

 

 

[RoyalOrleans]

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

 

-Ayn Rand "The Virtue of Selfishness"

[wez]

And Alaska -- we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs. ... It's to maximize benefits for Alaskans, not an individual company, not some multinational somewhere, but for Alaskans." --Sarah Palin, explaining the windfall profits tax that she imposed on the oil industry in Alaska as a mechanism for ensuring that Alaskans "share in the wealth" generated by oil companies, New Yorker interview, Sept. 2008

 

But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy." --Sarah Palin, explaining the $700 billion government bailout of Wall Street to Karie Couric, CBS News interview, Sept. 24, 2008

 

Liberal commie?

 

 

I don't know if you're going to use the word 'terrorist' there." --Sarah Palin, asked if people who bomb abortion clinics are terrorists, NBC News interview, Oct. 23, 2008

 

Hero's constitutionally protected pursuit of happiness?

[RoyalOrleans]

"Hero's what? Did you mean heroes?"

 

-RO trying to decypher Wez-speak.

[wez]

"Hero's what? Did you mean heroes?"

 

-RO trying to decypher Wez-speak.

 

Better?

 

Here's some more gems..

 

Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." --Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008

 

Who's God is that?

 

 

I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." --Sarah Palin, on the $30 billion national gas pipeline project that she wanted built in the state, speaking to students the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008

 

 

Yeah.. God's will allright..

 

 

What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?" --Sarah Palin, inquiring with Wasilla librarian Mary Ellen Emmons about banning books right after taking office in 1996

 

God's will?

[RoyalOrleans]

"The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive- a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. Man's mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. The purpose of man's life is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question." - From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

[Old Salt]

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- Abraham Lincoln

 

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Former President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

[Ahhlee]

"The only way this could be better is if Teddy Roosevelt came riding in on his horse right now and gave one of his speeches." - My Uncle Larry during the spectacular 4th of July fireworks show at his Independence Day party.

[wez]

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgement of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, as must, if it be honest, also come an understanding of its inadequacy. ~ Carl Jung

 

 

[ImWithStupid]

"When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what's in them and nobody has read them... And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen." ~ Barack Obama, November 2004

 

 

How dare that evil Bush administration and Republican Congress, rush through legislation without allowing debate or giving people time to read it. Humph!

 

 

?What good is reading the bill if it?s a thousand pages and you don?t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?? ~ House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.)

 

 

But wait, I thought it was bad to not read the bill before voting?

[ImWithStupid]

"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 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 my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." ~ Pastor Adrian Rogers

[RoyalOrleans]

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.

Liberty is a well-armed lamb.

 

~ Benjamin Franklin

[Ahhlee]

But I, when I undress me

Each night, upon my knees

Will ask the Lord to bless me

With apple-pie and cheese.

 

~Eugene Field

[wez]

Never, never, never, never give up. ~ Winston Churchill

 

[RoyalOrleans]

"I never personally attacked you EVER! All I was saying was you are going to hell and your mother is a whore. So grow up!" - Timesjoke

[emkay64]

Hands down my favorite fiction writer:

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?When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.?

 

 

Tom Robbins

[hugo]

Hands down my favorite fiction writer:

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?When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.?

 

 

Tom Robbins

 

I always have to laugh when someone is getting divorced for the third or fourth time and they are once again blaming their ex.

[hugo]

?I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.?

 

Winston Churchill

[hugo]

?The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.?

 

Albert Einstein

[RoyalOrleans]

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity. - Alan Keyes

[timesjoke]

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. " ~ Margaret Thatcher

[emkay64]

I heard these growing up, but have no idea who said them:

 

"Never miss a good opportunity to shut up"

 

"The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and stick it back in your pocket"

 

It's true...I am a hick!

[hugo]

Milton Friedman Quotes:

 

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."

 

"Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property."

 

"Governments never learn. Only people learn."

 

"So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not"

 

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."

 

"Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

 

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

 

"What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system"

 

"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."

 

"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both."

[Ahhlee]

"Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear for the future." - Fulton Oursler

 

"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly." - Antisthenes

 

"Half of life is fukking up. The other half is dealing with it." - Henry Rollins

 

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

 

"You really know you love someone when all you want is for them to be happy, even if that means that you are not a part of their joy." - ?