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Quotes/Part 2
"Giving money and
power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys." P.J. O'Rourke
"If people behaved like governments, you'd call the
cops." Kelvin Throop
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend
upon the support of Paul." G.B. Shaw
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the
most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a
democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a
dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest
civilizations has been 200 years." Alexander Tyler
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the
privilege to be free."
Charles Evans Hughes
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for
expedients, and by parts."
Edmund Burke
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new." Albert Einstein
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" H.M.
Warner (Warner Brothers)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are
usually right." Henry Ford
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever
they go." Oscar Wilde
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't
work." Thomas Edison
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not
heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has
no brains." Sir Winston Churchill
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean
level wouldn't cure."
Ross MacDonald
"Well done is better than well said." Benjamin
Franklin
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose
begins."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and
plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as
property." Thomas Paine
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people,
except for a few public officials."
George Mason
"Resistance To Tyranny Is Obedience To GOD" Thomas
Jefferson
"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of
the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially
when young, how to use them..." Richard Henry Lee
"Every once in a while I like to stick my head out the
window, look up at the sky and smile...for a satellite
picture." Steven Wright
