Quote of the day thread

#551
#551
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

-Abraham Lincoln
 
#552
#552
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty

- Gandhi
 
#553
#553
"I'm more optimistic than ever... The young people are responding very, very favorably. I haven't had any young person come up to me and say 'you know what, we need more wars.'"

-Dr. Ron Paul
 
#555
#555
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded

-Friedrich August von Hayek
 
#556
#556
It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them. -Sam Adams
 
#557
#557
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. -Aristotle
 
#559
#559
What Iceland did was right. It would have been wrong to burden future generations with the mistakes of the financial system.

-Joe Stiglitz
 
#561
#561
most attractive to Americans, the possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave, it being the ultimate means by which freedom was to be preserved.
– James Burgh
 
#562
#562
"I shall not be a shepherd, nor a gravedigger. I do not want to even speak again with the people--for the last time have I spoken to a dead person." Nietszche
 
#563
#563
“If you can only be good at one thing, be good at lying. .  .  . Because if you’re good at lying, you’re good at everything.”
 
#565
#565
Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it's usually something unusual - John Winger
 
#567
#567
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks." -Lord Acton
 
#568
#568
"But it appeared, that no precautions are sufficient, where laws have no place, and where all principles of honour are utterly abandoned." -- David Hume
 
#570
#570
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

Patrick Henry
 
#574
#574
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages. -Adam Smith
 
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