Famous Quotes

[almaty 19]

All beings seek for happiness, so let your compassion extend itself to all."

-Mahavamsa

[eau_xplain 2]

"If we pursue security to the point where we give up that which makes us Americans, the enemy has won"

-Benjamin Franklin

[Kevin and 10]

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~Mark Twain

[NavarreMan 10]

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

[bhajishah 4]

Dont sugar coat s#$t and try to feed it to me as candy....mom

[NavarreMan 10]

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

Jerry Falwell

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Jerry Falwell

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

Jerry Falwell

I sure am going to miss that fat chopf#@k (NOT)

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

I sure am going to miss that fat chopf#@k (NOT)

wasn't that monica lewinsky?

[NavarreMan 10]

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.

-- Barbara Bush (commencement address to Wellesley College

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support

of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he

proposes to pay off with your money. --G. Gordon Liddy

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich

countries to rich people in poor countries. --Douglas Casey (1992)

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live

at the expense of everybody else. --Frederic Bastiat

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:

If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops

moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs

when it's free. --P.J. O'Rourke

If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal.

If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative.

If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate.

If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.

--Joseph Sobran (1995)

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as

possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. --Voltaire

(1764)

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in

session. --Mark Twain (1866)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I

repeat myself. --Mark Twain

Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. --Will Rogers

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at

one end and no responsibility at the other. --Ronald Reagan

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well

please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the

consequences. --P.J. O'Rourke (1993)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

--Will Rogers

[NavarreMan 10]

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William E. Gladstone

[LuzyC 0]

''For Every Minute You Are Angry You Lose 60 Seconds of Happiness ''.

'' Positive Anything is Better Than Negative Nothing ''.

[NavarreMan 10]

[almaty 19]

excellent and true

[NavarreMan 10]

excellent and true

And happening as we type

[churipu 4]

One of my fav is in my signature....