Here's a quote for you....

[Binky]

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure”


Similar Quotes. About: Funny quotes.

[Binky]

" A line is a dot that went for a walk. ”
Paul Klee quotes

[revelarts]

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
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“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
Thomas Jefferson quote
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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
Thomas Jefferson quote
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“Information is the currency of democracy.”
Thomas Jefferson quote
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“Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”
Thomas Jefferson quote
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thanks for posting

These quotes are so profound today.

But somehow many people still somehow believe it's just the OTHER party that has the bad traits. Not that large unaccountable Gov't itself is a breeding ground for homegrown despotism.

[revelarts]

John Adams..............

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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. "
John Adams, Journal, 1772
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John Adams quotes:
"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
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John Adams quotes:
"Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this Country."
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Awesome

[revelarts]

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton


Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton


Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton

Socialism means slavery.
Lord Acton


The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Lord Acton


There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Lord Acton


There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Lord Acton


To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Lord Acton

The more corrupt the state the more it legislates.
Tacitus

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong
Voltaire

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

[revelarts]

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw


A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra


A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby


I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos


Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Cullen Hightower

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
Chris Rock

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

[revelarts]

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Gandhi

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers

[revelarts]

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton


"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
--Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816.

"I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection
with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am
not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of
Europe, entering that field of slaughter to preserve their
balance, or joining in the confederacy of Kings to war against
the principles of liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry,
1799.


"We wish not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country,
nor with the general affairs of Europe." --Thomas Jefferson to
C. W. F. Dumas, 1793.


"The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no
passion or principle but that of gain." --Thomas Jefferson to
Larkin Smith, 1809.


"The most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and
impartial justice to all its citizens." --Thomas Jefferson: Note
in Tracy's, "Political Economy," 1816.


“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
Thomas Jefferson

[revelarts]

Long one that applies to the "rights" thread I believe but I'll post it here.

it's a passage from
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
by Etienne de la Boetie

....One never pines for what he has never known; longing comes only after enjoyment and
constitutes, amidst the experience of sorrow, the memory of past
joy. It is truly the nature of man to be free and to wish to be so,
yet his character is such that he instinctively follows the
tendencies that his training gives him.
Let us therefore admit that all those things to which he is
trained and accustomed seem natural to man and that only that is
truly native to him which he receives with his primitive,
untrained individuality. Thus custom becomes the first reason for
voluntary servitude. Men are like handsome race horses who first
bite the bit and later like it, and rearing under the saddle a while
soon learn to enjoy displaying their harness and prance proudly
beneath their trappings. Similarly men will grow accustomed to
the idea that they have always been in subjection, that their
fathers lived in the same way; they will think they are obliged to
suffer this evil, and will persuade themselves by example and
imitation of others, finally investing those who order them
around with proprietary rights, based on the idea that it has
always been that way.
There are always a few, better endowed than others, who feel
the weight of the yoke and cannot restrain themselves from
attempting to shake it off: these are the men who never become
tamed under subjection and who always, like Ulysses on land
and sea constantly seeking the smoke of his chimney, cannot
prevent themselves from peering about for their natural
privileges and from remembering their ancestors and their
former ways. These are in fact the men who, possessed of clear
minds and far-sighted spirit, are not satisfied, like the brutish
mass, to see only what is at their feet, but rather look about them,
behind and before, and even recall the things of the past in order
to judge those of the future, and compare both with their present
condition. These are the ones who, having good minds of their
own, have further trained them by study and learning. Even if
liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would
invent it. For them slavery has no satisfactions, no matter how
well disguised....

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You can find the whole thing here...
http://mises.org/resources/1218
I'm not on board with all the Mises thought but, it's a great place to start from IMO.

[Palin Rider]

Professor: Would you rather defend a client who committed a crime malum in se or malum prohibitum?

Student: Neither. I'd rather defend a client who's innocent.

[revelarts]

“Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 –1993), American Christian preacher and author

"A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. ...At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration."
George Orwell (1903-1950) (Eric Arthur Blair), (book: 1984)

“Since information gives power, access to personal files can lead to unreasonable pressures, even blackmail, especially against those with the least resources, people who depend upon public programs, for example. Big Brother isn't a camera. Big Brother is a computer.”
C.J. Howard, political novel “Cybercash”

[revelarts]

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal"
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth


"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil"
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo - Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)


"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service."
General Smedley Butler. USMC (Ret.)

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Whenever a people... entrust the defence of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction of the most wealthy citizens."
A Framer - Anonymous 'framer' of the US Constitution - Source: Independent Gazetteer, January 29, 1791

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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
Abraham Lincoln

[revelarts]

"The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two old parties know they are both right."
Kevin Zeese

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." Gore Vidal

"Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government."
Gerald F. Lieberman

"each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office."
Niccolo Machiavelli
(Italian writer and statesman, Florentine patriot, author of 'The Prince',


"An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod" - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections."
David Ogilvy (Scottish born British military intelligence officer and later top advertising executive, 1911-1999)

[revelarts]

vdouble post

[Nukeman]

All these are by the same person lt me know if you know who!!!!!



-An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

-Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

-God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.


-I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

-In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

-It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

-It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

-Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.