Political Quotes (No Cartoons Allowed or Charles will delete your post)

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"A democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who will not."

Thomas Jefferson

Actually, Jefferson never said that.

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[Dakine10 5,452]

-How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

-We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

-We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

-A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

-How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

-We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

-We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

-A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Someone should have showed this to Bush Jr. right before he was sworn in the first time.

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Actually, Jefferson never said that.

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Now to stay on topic:

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Actually, Jefferson never said that.

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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Thomas Jefferson

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To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Thomas Jefferson

Here's the beginning of the entire quote which is titled, The Basis of Taxation:

The taxes with which we are familiar, class themselves readily according to the basis on which they rest. 1. Capital. 2. Income. 3. Consumption. These may be considered as commensurate; Consumption being generally equal to Income, and Income the annual profit of Capital. A government may select any one of these bases for the establishment of its system of taxation, and so frame it as to reach the faculties of every member of the society, and to draw from him his equal proportion of the public contributions; and, if this be correctly obtained, it is the perfection of the function of taxation.

....

How far it may be the interest and the duty of all to submit to this sacrifice on other grounds; for instance, to pay for a time an impost on the importation of certain articles, in order to encourage their manufacture at home, or an excise on others injurious to the morals or health of the citizens, will depend on a series of considerations of another order, and beyond the proper limits of this note. [* * *] To this a single observation shall yet be added. Whether property alone, and the whole of what each citizen possesses, shall be subject to contribution, or only its surplus after satisfying his first wants, or whether the faculties of body and mind shall contribute also from their annual earnings, is a question to be decided. But, when decided, and the principle settled, it is to be equally and fairly applied to all.

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The whole text refers to whether a person should be double-taxed.

Here's the link:

http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-foley?specfile=/texts/english/jefferson/foley/public/JefCycl.o2w&act=surround&offset=9329398&tag=8279.+TAXATION,+Basis+of.+--+&query=To+take+from+one+because+it+is+thought+that+his+own+industry&id=JCE8279

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Stan:	Who are the corporations?

Woman 2:[a blonde with a psychedelic fish on her shirt] The corporations run the entire world. And now they fooled you into working for them.

Stan:	Are you serious?? We never heard that.

Driver:	We just spent our first semester at college. Our professors opened our eyes. The government is using its corporate ties to make you sell magazines so they can get rich.

Kyle:	Ugh! Those dirty liars!

Kenny:	(Sonofabitch!) [throws down his shoulder tote]

Man 2:	[has finished his chips] This is a really nice town you have here. That's why the corporations are trying to use you to take it down.

Stan:	Well... Well what do we do?

Driver:	Just hang with us for a bit. We'll fill you in on everything you haven't been told. [Man 2 resumes eating chips]

http://www.southparkstuff.com/season_9/episode_902/epi902script/

Edited December 15, 2011 by Crusty Old Perv

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world,... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

One thing is sure. We have to do something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rules are not necessarily sacred,... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Danno 1,228]

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain government."

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-]Patrick Henry

[Leatherneck 693]

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

― Frédéric Bastiat

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...” -- Jonathan Swift

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

“…..Throughout our history, America’s confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world. “

Barack Obama 7/16/08

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

What a maroon! What a ignoraminus! -- Bugs Bunny

Edited December 16, 2011 by Crusty Old Perv

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Here's the beginning of the entire quote which is titled, The Basis of Taxation:

The taxes with which we are familiar, class themselves readily according to the basis on which they rest. 1. Capital. 2. Income. 3. Consumption. These may be considered as commensurate; Consumption being generally equal to Income, and Income the annual profit of Capital. A government may select any one of these bases for the establishment of its system of taxation, and so frame it as to reach the faculties of every member of the society, and to draw from him his equal proportion of the public contributions; and, if this be correctly obtained, it is the perfection of the function of taxation.

....

How far it may be the interest and the duty of all to submit to this sacrifice on other grounds; for instance, to pay for a time an impost on the importation of certain articles, in order to encourage their manufacture at home, or an excise on others injurious to the morals or health of the citizens, will depend on a series of considerations of another order, and beyond the proper limits of this note. [* * *] To this a single observation shall yet be added. Whether property alone, and the whole of what each citizen possesses, shall be subject to contribution, or only its surplus after satisfying his first wants, or whether the faculties of body and mind shall contribute also from their annual earnings, is a question to be decided. But, when decided, and the principle settled, it is to be equally and fairly applied to all.

....

The whole text refers to whether a person should be double-taxed.

Here's the link:

http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-foley?specfile=/texts/english/jefferson/foley/public/JefCycl.o2w&act=surround&offset=9329398&tag=8279.+TAXATION,+Basis+of.+--+&query=To+take+from+one+because+it+is+thought+that+his+own+industry&id=JCE8279

Context. Pfft.

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"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

~James Madison