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Guest
10-29-2008, 05:23 AM
ONE MORE ROUND


It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- U.S. Supreme Court, in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

Guest
10-29-2008, 02:22 PM
"Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan I know he is going to vote against me." Harry Truman

Guest
10-29-2008, 06:57 PM
Government is the fiction, through which everybody endeavers to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Guest
10-30-2008, 06:35 AM
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. - Robert Reich

Guest
10-30-2008, 11:06 AM
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Guest
10-30-2008, 11:56 AM
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~John F. Kennedy

Guest
10-30-2008, 01:49 PM
Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Guest
10-30-2008, 02:26 PM
Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

:agree:

Guest
10-31-2008, 01:37 PM
"It's time all of us stop being fooled by those well meaning bureaucrats who claim to protect us because they say we can't protect ourselves"

Milton Friedman

Guest
10-31-2008, 01:47 PM
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

Samuel Johnson, 1775

Guest
11-03-2008, 09:00 AM
"A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.”

General George S. Patton quote

Guest
11-04-2008, 03:16 PM
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in a rich country to rich people in poor countries.

Douglas Casey,
Classmate of Bill Clinton