political quotes

I'll start with these...who has others on this topic or anything else.

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving."

"The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else."

"When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation."

"You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

---
The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005

JReed wrote:I'll start with these...who has others on this topic or anything else.

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving."

"The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else."

"When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation."

"You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

---
The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005

"Patriotism is the virtue of the viscious" - Oscar Wilde

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal" - John Steinbeck

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our own thoughts" - Charles Darwin

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him" - Jonathan Swift

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them" - Abigail Adams

"If fifty-million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing" - Anatole France

"If you pick a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man" - Mark Twain

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste time voting" - Charles Bukowski

"Ethics are so annoying, i avoid them on principle" - Darby Conley

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." - John Handey

"If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result." - John Abrahams

Nice thread, JR.


Here's a favorite of mine, from a favorite of mine:

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

Btw, JR...your quotes are profound for our times.

HotParadox wrote:Nice thread, JR.


Here's a favorite of mine, from a favorite of mine:

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

What does that actually mean, though?

Poison your rivals?

Cartoon Head wrote:

HotParadox wrote:Nice thread, JR.


Here's a favorite of mine, from a favorite of mine:

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

What does that actually mean, though?

It means when the people of America discuss it, that's the birth of change.

And by the way Jr, great quotes... Too bad most on the left just don't get it.

I had this one on another thread. I just think it's funnier than hell.


"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

I have no idea who actually said it.

JReed wrote:I had this one on another thread. I just think it's funnier than hell.


"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

I have no idea who actually said it.

From what I've read, the quote was originally made by Don Imus.

Grim17 wrote:

Cartoon Head wrote:

HotParadox wrote:Nice thread, JR.


Here's a favorite of mine, from a favorite of mine:

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

What does that actually mean, though?

It means when the people of America discuss it, that's the birth of change.

And by the way Jr, great quotes... Too bad most on the left just don't get it.

So negotation and discussion are the key to postive change, right?

JReed wrote:I had this one on another thread. I just think it's funnier than hell.


"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

I have no idea who actually said it.

*hand up*

Me.

Yesterday.

While sitting on the toliet.

My all time favorite political quote.

"My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to announce that I've signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes."

Ronald Reagan

Big Slick wrote:My all time favorite political quote.

"My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to announce that I've signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes."

Ronald Reagan

No..???

He didn't?

LOL

Yes... He did.