Favorite Political Quotes

[SuBe]

Hmmmmm.....I wonder what party Mr. Marrou belongs to.....

I haven't figured it out yet either.

 

[SuBe]

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
John Adams Letter to John Taylor (1814-04-15)

 

[Matt]

This goes well with yours SuBe:

The three branches would in essence police each other with an elaborate system of safeguards and precautions that would prevent power from being concentrated in too few hands. Quipped a jubilant Hamilton, "The only way it could fail is if one party gained control of not just the Executive, but also the Senate and House chambers, and upon doing so, proceeded to bring in like-minded judges!!!!" And then the Framers all laughed and laughed.

 

[Excel]

Matt da mod is back in action eh?

 

[Addendum]

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected - G.K. Chesterton 4/19/1924

 

[SuBe]

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected - G.K. Chesterton 4/19/1924

That's really good.

 

[Addendum]

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are f***ed until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely - (Dr.) Hunter S. Thompson

Also from the good doctor,

I returned to the Holiday Inn — where they have a swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms — to consider the paradox of a nation that has given so much to those who preach the glories of rugged individualism from the security of countless corporate sinecures, and so little to that diminishing band of yesterday's refugees who still practice it, day by day, in a tough, rootless and sometimes witless style that most of us have long since been weaned away from.

 

[Matt]

Matt da mod is back in action eh?

 

[Kelly]

Well Matt, you are red now....check your SN......


It was Matt now its Matt...

Hope that helps the confusion.....

 

[SuBe]

"The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government"

Thomas Jefferson

 

[Franklin Richards]

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

John F. Kennedy

 

[Paradoxium]

We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt

- Joe Biden

 

[SuBe]

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
Thomas Jefferson

 

[Addendum]

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State - Benjamin R. Tucker

 

[Thirdworld]

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. – Tacitus

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. – Robert Heinlein

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain

Government control of a country’s economy—any kind or degree of such control, by any group, for any purpose whatsoever—rests on the basic principle of statism, the principle that man’s life belongs to the state. - Ayn Rand


Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover

 

[Kurosawa]

“Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today, They are unanimous in their hatred for me — and I welcome their hatred.”

FDR

"We have earned the hatred of entrenched greed. The very nature of the problem that we faced made it necessary to drive some people from power and strictly to regulate others."

FDR

 

[Thirdworld]

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

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

 

[SuBe]

From: Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple. Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we should soon want bread.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

 

[Addendum]

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue - Emma Goldman

 

[SuBe]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." [H. L. Mencken]

 

[SuBe]

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." [Samuel Adams]

 

[Carcharodon]

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein

 

[SuBe]

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." [Ayn Rand]

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993]

"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." [Nikita Khrushchev , February 25, 1956 20th Congress of the Communist Party]

 

[Addendum]

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought - Simon Cameron

 

[SuBe]

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights. [H.L. Mencken]