Daily quotes

[Kat Kanning]

"Government must be viewed as one individual doing things to other individuals which he is too cowardly to attempt in a face-to-face encounter."

- Jody Gammar

[Kat Kanning]

"A society that is more concerned about the redistribution of wealth than about the creation of wealth will certainly produce an equality of poverty."

- George Marotta

[error]

Equality of poverty is the goal!

[Tom Sawyer]

"...When I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held out to me by the arms of a million men... Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing."

Alexis de Tocqueville

[Lloyd Danforth]

He was the Final Jepaordy question last night.  I knew the answer, but, because I've never made the same sound in my brain twice whenever i've run into his name, i couldn't come up with it right away
I did, however, in the 30 seconds...Do  Doot  Do  Doot   Do  Doot  Do  Doot... spit out a series of  noises that satisfied my sister (competition) that I knew the answer, if not clear on the exact name.
I also have a serious mental block when trying to come up with 'Georgia O'keef under pressure.

[HippyChimp]

haven't read all 17 pages of this thread, so apologies if this is a duplicate...

anyhoo, my email sig has 3 quotes...  the first is Franklins "trading liberty for safety" quote that I'm sure everyone on this board knows. 

here's the other two: (The first one isn't "by" anyone, it's just something I've been saying for a while.)

When was the last time you heard someone say "Go ahead, it's a free
country"?

What luck for rulers that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler

[KBCraig]

"When someone is pointing a twelve-gauge shotgun at your brisket, it might not be amiss to treat their every word like a Commandment straight from the lips of God."
- LawDog

http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2007/01/jim-beams-got-your-back-waa-aaay-back.html

[mraaron]

       ?It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds?
                                                                                                                      - Samuel Adams

[lildog]

Nick Naylor: My point is that you have to think for yourself. If your parents told you that chocolate was dangerous would you take their word for it?
[Children say no]
Nick Naylor: Exactly! So perhaps instead of acting like sheep when it comes to cigarettes you should find out for yourself.

[John]

"The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - E.G.

[John]

"Crime is contagious.  If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law."  - L. D. B.

[John]

"Cowards can never by moral."  - M.G.

"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."  - M.G.

"It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward."  -  D.I.

"The only tyrant I accept in this word is the still voice within."  -  M.G.

[KBCraig]

Thanks to Walter Williams for this one:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken

[Lloyd Danforth]

"The quantity and quality of people kissing my ass went up"

Mike Judge discussing the success  of 'Beavis and Butthead'  and 'King Of The Hill' 

[Caleb]

just overheard ... "It's not brave if you're not scared."