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Great quote(s) for the times we're in .........
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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts."
—Eugene J. McCarthy, 1978
—Eugene J. McCarthy, 1978
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber - Plato
It makes no difference who you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing 4 percent of the people. - Gore Vidal
I don't care who does the electing just so long as I do the nominating. - William "Boss" Tweed - quite possibly the most corrupt America politician of the 19th century
Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. - President Herbert Hoover
It makes no difference who you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing 4 percent of the people. - Gore Vidal
I don't care who does the electing just so long as I do the nominating. - William "Boss" Tweed - quite possibly the most corrupt America politician of the 19th century
Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. - President Herbert Hoover
Yep. Good Shit and Bad shit...'shit happens' is, to me, the best explanation of the unexplainable. It explains why good things happen to bad people and why bad things happen to good people.
Here is another pertinent quote for the times we're in
The Libyan "Invasion": Another of the many examples of corporate America
- this time the oil companies -
demanding our democratic country and vast military resources secure their "entitlements" while insisting that they shouldn't pay taxes to support either.~unknown
Time to put this quote back in the forefront. The 2012 election is already starting to look like a circus side show. Probably because the precedent has long been set just as HL Menchen predicted.
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.' The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken said this many morons ago. I now fear many morons to come.
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.' The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken said this many morons ago. I now fear many morons to come.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it-Theodore Roosevelt
The price of greatness is responsibility-Winston Churchill
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other-John F. Kennedy
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has-Margaret Mead
The price of greatness is responsibility-Winston Churchill
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other-John F. Kennedy
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has-Margaret Mead
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them -Ronald Reagan
"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose."
~ John Maynard Keynes ~
~ John Maynard Keynes ~
" Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you."
— Randy Pausch
— Randy Pausch
As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working with the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. – Abraham Lincoln, 1864
"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Last night the Dalai Lama implied that the killing of Osama bin Laden was justified. I think his exact quote was, "I love all living things, but that guy was a dick." —Conan O'Brien 
"The American people and their wants and needs are not represented in Washington. Washington serves powerful interest groups, such as the military/security complex, Wall Street and the banksters, agribusiness, the oil companies, the insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and the mining and timber industries. Washington endows these interests with excess profits by committing war crimes and terrorizing foreign populations with bombs, drones, and invasions, by deregulating the financial sector and bailing it out of its greed-driven mistakes after it has stolen Americans’ pensions, homes, and jobs, by refusing to protect the land, air, water, oceans and wildlife from polluters and despoilers, and by constructing a health care system with the highest costs and highest profits in the world" - Chris Weagel/from his blog @ Human Dog Productions
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
Democracy will have to learn that it must pay for its own follies and that it cannot draw unlimited checks on the future to solve its present problems. – F.A. Hayek
That may well be the truest quote in these 5 pages
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
Democracy will have to learn that it must pay for its own follies and that it cannot draw unlimited checks on the future to solve its present problems. – F.A. Hayek
"One of the most important things about this legislation is the fact that never again will any president, from either party, be allowed to raise the debt ceiling without being held accountable for it by the American people and without having to engage in the kind of debate we've just come through."-Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
Beware of the man with one gun. For he probably knows how to use it well - some dude on a gun forum 
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see,
this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed
to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind
is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, - not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
Robert Anson Heinlein
this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed
to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind
is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, - not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
Robert Anson Heinlein
Nah He's over in the religious debate forum .
Ten I picked up from Monticello yesterday
[FONT=arial, sans-serif][FONT=arial, sans-serif][FONT=arial, sans-serif]Thomas Jefferson's Guiding Principles:
I. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
II. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
III. Never spend your money before you have it.
IV. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
V. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
VI. We never repent of having eaten too little.
VII. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
VIII. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
IX. Take things always by their smooth handle.
X. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif][FONT=arial, sans-serif][FONT=arial, sans-serif]Thomas Jefferson's Guiding Principles:
I. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
II. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
III. Never spend your money before you have it.
IV. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
V. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
VI. We never repent of having eaten too little.
VII. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
VIII. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
IX. Take things always by their smooth handle.
X. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
If you're a fan of R.A.H. you'll also enjoy the writings of Anson MacDonald and Caleb Saunders!
(Yes, I know.)