Quote of the day thread

#476
#476
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
#478
#478
"first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win" - Mahatma Gandhi
 
#479
#479
"Aaahhhh, I love the smell of bourbon and perfume in the morning."

Apocalypse Now - College Football Translation
 
#482
#482
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

Frank Sinatra
 
#486
#486
"I don't want to cut defense! I want to cut militarism. I want to cut money overseas and spend it here. We'd have more money for defense, not less." You consider a base bigger than the Vatican in Iraq as defense spending. I consider it militarism. We need a strong national defense, but we musn't dilute our strength." -Ron Paul
 
#487
#487
"Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness," Havel told Congress, referring to a movement toward democracy, "nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe for which the world is headed -- be it ecological, social, demographic, or a general breakdown of civilization -- will be unavoidable.

-Vaclav Havel
 
#488
#488
"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it ill becomes any of us,
to talk about the rest of us."
(source unknown)
 
#489
#489
I like this one too ...

"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."
--José Ortega y Gasset,
Spanish philosopher and essayist
 
#490
#490
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson
 
#491
#491
I'd just as soon freeze to death." - Actress Ashley Judd relating a story of being offered a University North Carolina - Chapel Hill jacket on a chilly movie set. - Lexington Herald Leader, August 15, 1996.

I laughed so hard at that...she's stupid as ****.
 
#493
#493
"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

Winston Churchill -
 
#495
#495
When our Founders declared a new order of the ages ... they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled.

Gerorge W Bush - Jan. 20, 2005 second inaugural address.
 
#497
#497
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are. -
H.L Mencken.
 
#498
#498
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -Thomas Jefferson
 
#499
#499
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
~Frank Chodorov
 
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