Favorite Quote thread

[mikemover]

Originally posted by G-Benz
Sounds like Bush and the need to invade Iraq, doesn't it?

Yup....also reminds me of alarmist environmentalists, affirmative action whiners, Democratic pleas for higher taxes, the "need" for free perscription drugs for seniors, the "need" for continuing Social Security, continuing welfare, the "Patriot Act", globalization paranoia, anti-"big business" folks....the list is endless....

Mike

[Botnst]

Originally posted by mikemover
Yup....also reminds me of alarmist environmentalists, affirmative action whiners, Democratic pleas for higher taxes, the "need" for free perscription drugs for seniors, the "need" for continuing Social Security, continuing welfare, the "Patriot Act", globalization paranoia, anti-"big business" folks....the list is endless....

Mike

Mike, you're a persistent SOB, aren't you? You remind me of a university commencement speech given by Winston Churchill. It was short and succinct.

"Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, ....., Give up!"

With that, he sat down.

Botnst

[Houston]

“Well, I wouldn’t be so paranoid of the entire world wasn’t out to get me”
- George Costanze on Seinfeld (Jason Alexander)

[CJ]

KISS MY GRITS!!!!!!!!

[Piotr]

hmm.. that also reminds me of hillbilly and their class warfare. Als, a certained bombed aspirin factory in Sudan

[Piotr]

Originally posted by mikemover
"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." [Voltaire]
Voltaire was a voting Democrat???????

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. [H.L. Mencken - ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN usa]


The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights. [H.L. Mencken - SPEAKING WITH CHARLTON HESTON]

"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-SUMMARIZING 12 YEARS OF CLINTON]


This is one of my favorites. From Alexander Tyler. No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic.


"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."


"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." [Nikita Khrushchev , February 25, 1956 20th Congress of the Communist Party- REFEREING TO TED KENNEDY]


"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all." [Vladimir Lenin, as quoted in Not by Politics Alone]


"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!]


"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." [President Bill Clinton, 'USA Today' March 11, 1993: Page 2A- AAAHH, THE BEST SUMMARY OF HIS 12 YEARS]

"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" [Alan Keyes]



and my all-time favorite. Live by it.

"Try not. DO, or do not. There is no try." [Yoda]

Mike

[The Guy]

"Problem solved"

"Keep your fingers crossed"

"Knock on wood"

-SB

[Cap'n Carageous]

"And you can quote me on that!"

[420SEL]

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffet

[mikemover]

Originally posted by Botnst
Mike, you're a persistent SOB, aren't you? You remind me of a university commencement speech given by Winston Churchill. It was short and succinct.

"Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, ....., Give up!"

With that, he sat down.

Botnst

I LOVE that one! I'll have to add it to my list of favorites. I couldn't agree more! It's the only way to get things done. It also adds weight to my previous quote from Yoda.

Mike

An englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly que of one.
George Mikes

[guydewdney]

i cant remember the dudes name, but he was a concert conductor from the early 1900s.

"big band music is fine, as long as it is listened to correctly - from 5 miles away in a concrete bunker"

"once should try everything in life once excpt incest and line dancing" (a 'take on' the above dudes quote by Steven Fry - altered line dancing from folk dancing IIRC)

Guy

[Plantman]

" I feel bad for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day"

- Frank Sinatra

[Zoonhollis]

The most preposterous notion that H. Sapiens has dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not recieve this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

-Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

[ready-ronnie]

another Churchill classic

Some lady said to Churchill after he had been drinking for awhile. Sir " you are drunk"!! "I may be drunk", Churchill said," but you are ugly and I'll be sober in the morning".