Friday, January 1, 2010

Some Great Quotes

Some great quotes I found online...

January 1, 2010 at 10:30 pm
at this website: http://www.texaslonghorn.com/main.cfm

Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken 1880-1956


Legalized Theft - if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)


Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.
Robert LeFevre


Education is useless without the Bible.
Noah Webster


Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true
Eric Hoffer (1898 - 1983)


When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Theodore Roosevelt


Son, always invest in land and cattle. The government can't print more land and a good cow will have a new calf every year.
Frank Dickinson


There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Robert Heinlein


Beware of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein


If stupid was fruit, Washington D.C. would be a spoiled orchard!
Henry Lamb


Communism ~~ the government owns the means and method of production. In fascism the government controls the means and method of production.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
P.J. O'Rourke


No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
Robert Heinlien


Government does not solve problems - it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan


Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon (James Neil Hollingworth)

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