November 18 2009, 15:42:18 #71 [1 Agree] [-1 S] [-1 T]
ITT: Your favorite quote relating to politics and/or government.
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. this is the sum of a good government."
~Thomas Jefferson
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November 18 2009, 15:47:01 #72 [1 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
Already posted, but still good:
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. "
- Louis D. Brandeis
November 18 2009, 18:28:42 #83 [1 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
Long, but good. Also accurate.
“The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless…From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore…will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.”
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1781
November 19 2009, 10:06:51 #112 [0 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
~Benjamin Franklin
November 19 2009, 10:19:54 #113 [0 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
@83 That's depressing because you can clearly see we're headed straight for doom. It didn't even take us that long either!
November 24 2009, 10:33:53 #233 [0 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
~ Suzanna Hupp
December 20 2009, 14:42:29 #837 [0 Agree] [0 S] [0 T]
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
~ Sam Adams (the American Patriot, not the beer, because let's face it, some of you don't know)