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Obama is not my president. I do not wish him well. I will laugh to scorn at his mistakes and cheer his failures. I want the GOP to block, hinder and slam him at every turn. I want his ego crushed. I want to see his every political ally abandon him, leaving him to slowly twist in the breeze. I want to see him curled up in a fetal position in the Oval Office, crying uncontrollably, and blithering like a paranoid madman. I want to see him driven from office as soon as possible a broken man with his administration and the socialist-democratic party in ruins. And then.....I want his every action while in office to be investigated and prosecuted.
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
-- Author Unknown
What do I think about your new President?
"I for one will NOT welcome our new Marxist overlords."
Four years of these idiots leading our nation........GOD help us.
"I'm as MAD AS HELL about these Marxist politicians, and I'm NOT gonna take it anymore!"
COMMENTS TO MAKE AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS
"OBAMA's FAULT !"
"OBAMA's FAILED ECONOMIC/NATIONAL SECURITY/TAX POLICY!"
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"Your filthy (DemocRAT) party has poisoned the political well, and it's long past time you had a good stiff dose poured down your throats. "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism!" you screamed incessantly, and so I plan to dissent.
Obama is not my president. I do not wish him well. I will laugh at his mistakes and cheer his stumbles. I want the GOP to block, hinder and slam him at every turn. I want him driven from office four years from now a broken man with his administration in ruins.
In short, I want Obama given the same respect and deference that Democrats have given George Bush since November of 2000." -- CHRISTOPHER DIGRAZIA 11/19/08
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. ... Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. ... And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you ... to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right. ... Gird your loins. We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride....
"This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh, my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now ... be prepared to stick with us. ... There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision.' Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made ... they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound....
"I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here."
- Joe Biden, Obama's VP candidate 10/19/08 Seattle Democratic fund-raiser
Above sign created by FReeper Islander7
"BORDERS? WE DON' NEED NO STEENKING BORDERS!"
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA's SPIRITUAL MENTOR
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EXPOSE THE SNAKE OIL SALESMAN RINO HUCKSTER PING LIST
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You MUST read these articles BEFORE considering the Huckster for federal office! You have been warned!!!
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HUCKSTER ARTICLES
Mike Huckabee sides with CCM policy offering in-county tuition to illegal immigrants
Huckabee's Gubernatorial Records Missing
Big Nannies Of The Year(Huckabee is top GOP nanny stater)
Huckabee Backs Mandatory US Cap On Global Warming Pollution (Cap & Tax)- 10/13/07
Despite Clemmons' record, Huckabee showed mercy
Huckabee's clemency (of Clemmons) revisited
Huckabee's Hypocrisy on Abortion(Took $35K consulting fees from Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher)
Huckabee "Laughed Out Loud" at Prosecutors Objections To Clemency
A breakdown of the 1,103 criminals given clemency by Mike Huckabee
RAW DATA: Clemmons' Commutation Proclamation
Man who shot 4 policemen, had been granted clemency by Huckabee - 11/30/09
ARRA Board Endorses Romney (Arkansas Republican Assemblies)
Huckabee alienates GOP in Arkansas
Golden Words from a Silver-Tongued Salesman (a.k.a. the Huckster)
Huckabee donor gives to company behind attack calls
Huckabee Lends His Halo to a Strange Penny Stock
Arkansas Taxes Up $642 Million Under Huckabee, Report Shows
Huckabee retreats on birthright citizenship (He still supports it)
A Plea from Arkansas: Christian Conservatives Need to Take a Closer Look at Huckabee's Record
Huckabee's Commutation of Eugene Fields (4X DUI offender)
,Dumond case revisited - A reminder of Huckabee's role in his freedom
What Did Huckabee Know? (Dumond Case)
Why (did Huckabee) parole a monster like Green
Paroled Rapist Could Haunt Huckabee
Best-selling author says Huckabee's tough talk on immigration doesn't match his record
Arkansas Republicans plan campaign against Huckabee.
Arkansas Citizen to Sue Mike Huckabee Over His Involvement With Establishing Mexican Consulate
Huckabee took thousands in gifts, records show
Gifts solicited for Gov. Huckabee ("Wedding" registry to furnish post-Gov. home)
Sept 2005: Web special: Dumond case revisited A reminder of Huckabee's role in his freedom
The Huckabee Contradiction - WSJ
HORRIBLE HUCK; PUSHING POPULIST PAP
Huckabee: I can’t compromise on scholarships for illegals because “my soul will not let me”
Huckabee Hedges on Aid for Illegals (Must read)
Immigration group: Huckabee a 'Disaster'
Huckabee Tries to Gloss Over Ark. Record
Video of Huckabee Calling for Scholarships and In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens (2005)
Mike Huckabee Supported Bill to GIve Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens
Permanent beer tax recommended by panel (Huckabee Tax Archives)
Huckabee Lied about Video on Fox News this Morning
Arkansas House Minority Leader Writes Letter to Clarify Huckabee Tax Video from 2003
Huckabee's Flip Flop on Smoking Ban
Exclusive Video: Huckabee - Whatever Tax You Pass, "You Will Have Nothing But My Profound Thanks"
Mike Huckabee: Wishy-Washy Republican
Huckabee "Open" to states passing Civil Union laws for Homosexuals
Arkansas Republican Assembly Endorses Fred Thompson (Huckabee Gets 4.44% From His Own State)
Environmentalists Find There's Slim Pickings in the GOP Pres. Field (Except McCain and Huckabee)
CHRISTIANS NEED TO BEWARE OF MIKE HUCKABEE
Huckabee at 8% in Arkansas? Poll Analysis
HUCKABEE LETTER TO ARKANSAS REP LEGISLATORS (We don't support you Mike)
Duncan Hunter vs. Mike Hucksterbee - Let's Compare
Huckabee's Record on Economic Issues
Huckabee's Misguided "Compassion"
Huckabee rents to Mexican consul for $1.
Immigration bill un-Christian, anti-life, governor (Huckabee) says (2005)
Legality of Huckabee's Mexican consulate deal questioned
Mexican consulate deal dogs Huckabee campaign
E-mails illustrate Huckabee strategy (on Smoker Ban)
Huckabee left computers, fund gutted
Huckabee stirs up third-party fear
Another Man From Hope - Who is Mike Huckabee?
Huckabee Backs Mandatory U.S. Cap on Global-Warming Pollution
Huckabee Not All He Appears to Be
The Case For And (Mostly) Against Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee? Are You Kidding?
Huckabee: The GOP's Best Bet? (LOL! See post # 48)
Amnesty Amnesia Claims Another Victim: MIKE HUCKABEE
June 2005 article- Huckabee promotes 'open door' policy at LULAC convention
Suit focuses on Tyson relationship with advocacy group (LULAC)
Huckabee Supports A National Smoking Ban
Huckabee's Record: Anything But Conservative
Huckabee: Hispanics Offer U.S. 'Second Chance'
The Huckster's Position On Illegal Alien Amnesty
Huckabee risks political fortunes to denounce immigration raid
Huckabee: I may move to NY and run against Hillary in Senate race
Illegal Alien roundup provokes Huckabee scolding
Huckabee: A New American Quisling
Huckabee promotes 'open door' policy at LULAC convention
Debate immigration issue -- Huckabee Alert
Immigration bill un-Christian, anti-life, governor says (Huckabee)
Huckabee blurs Bush & Clinton partisan lines (Huckabee bashes Bush)
Arkansas Returns; Hopeless (Huckabee Ethical Lapses)
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Reasons why Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is a RINO and no longer fit for public office
These are the tax hikes that FAUX-CONSERVATIVE ol' Huckabee signed into law while Governor:
Sales Tax, 1996 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 11/07/96)
Gas and Diesel Fuel Taxes, 1999 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 04/02/99, 04/25/99)
Sales Tax, 2000 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 09/25/02)
Cigarette Tax, 2001 (Associated Press, 04/02/01)
Nursing Home Bed Tax, 2001 (Associated Press, 06/25/01)
Sales Tax, 2002 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 11/15/02)
Income Surcharge Tax, 2003 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 10/09/07)
Tobacco Tax, 2003 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 10/09/07)
Internet Taxes, 2004 (Bond Buyer, 02/24/04)
From TheBattman - 6/7/7:
Long and short on Huckabee from his record:
Positives:
1. Has been very strong on gun rights (CCW, protecting gun makers from stupid lawsuits).
2. Pro-Marriage: Marraige protection Act was his baby along with covenant marriage.
3. Pro-life
Negatives:
1. Supported taxes (Old-fashioned Tax-and-Spend politician)- engineered a 3% state income tax surcharge (a tax on the tax you paid in income tax) that was supposedly to make up for budget shortfalls - and then kept in in place a year longer than was necessary (and promised).
Raised fuel taxes
Encouraged the use of sales tax as an easy means of revenue boosting.
Opposed all efforts to reduce the sales tax on groceries and prescription drugs, even in years with a budget surplus. Heck, our new Democrat (liberal at that) Governor, under public pressure, agreed to a reduction in grocery sales tax...
2. ArKidsFirst - One of the larges social spending programs in Arkansas history was his baby. I don’t have a problem with helping low income folks get medical care, but I know many folks on it that could afford regular coverage - but why when big gubmint will give it free?
3. Big Government - Huckabee, between his socialist healthcare moves, his heavy hand regarding tobacco use, his mandatory “search lunchboxes of school kids” “health” initiative, and massive expansion of most social programs...
4. Poor record of political appointments - just one example - Sheffield Nelson on the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission - who has single-handedly tarnished the organization and really pissed off sportsmen in the state with his obstructionist and blatantly anti-”regular Joe” initiatives.
5. Illegal Immigration - Huckabee actually called anyone against illegal immigration (those who wanted to prevent free tuition to illlegals, free social benefits to illegals, etc.) non-Christian.
6. Party Affiliation - Huckabee has chosen in the last couple of elections to not be supportive of Republican candidates, including Lt. Governor, when they were a solid conservative choice, preferring more “moderate” or even liberal candidates.
I’m sure there is plenty more (maybe both pro and con) that others can add.
TheBattman 03/08/2006 4:06:54 PM CST Thanks OB1.... Another bit of news.. Anyone heard the news about our Socialist governer/wanna-be POTUS? He has worked out a deal with the Feds to give socialized medical care to Arkansans. Dave Elswick was griping this afternoon about it... Supposedly, Huckabee got a waver to be able to use Medicade funds to help provide health insurance for those in low to middle income jobs. If an employer who currently doesn't offer health insurance wants to (so it was put) offer insurance, the employer will kick in $15 per month for employees making up to 2 times the federal poverty level, and will have to kick in over $100 per month for those employees who make over that figure (doesn't make much sense to me). Also, this requires that the employer must cover either ALL employees or none. No picking and choosing which employees get it. The project will be paid for/supplemented with a combination of Federal and state tax dollars plus the employer contribution.
TRUE CONSERVATIVES KNOW:
- That government that governs least, governs best.
- That as government expands, freedom contracts.
- That government should never do for a man what he can and should do for himself.
- That societies are judged by their treatment of the most vulnerable; the aged, the infirm, and the unborn.
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WHAT DOES CONSERVATISM BELIEVE IN?
Free Republic Is A CONSERVATIVE site - by Jim Robinson
Posted To: decal
Hey, all I ask is that we support the conservatives in the race and quit slobbering all over the liberal RINOs. And quit caving-in with “I will vote for whichever Republican gets the nomination.” Might as well surrender before the battle begins. FR is a conservative site and we will fight for conservative candidates. Liberals and RINOs need not apply. 418 posted on 01/10/2008 1:05:10 AM CST by Jim Robinson (Our God-given unalienable rights are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!)
Posted by Jim Robinson to wouldntbprudent On News/Activism 03/04/2007 2:44:12 PM PST · 340 of 573 "From my statement posted to FR's home page many moons ago:
As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc. We also oppose the United Nations or any other world government body that may attempt to impose its will or rule over our sovereign nation and sovereign people. We believe in defending our borders, our constitution and our national sovereignty.
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"....We ought to obey GOD rather than men." - Acts 5:29
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"The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else...." - Theodore Roosevelt
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (money) from the Public Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 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 into Bondage "
- Alexander Tytler (Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic)
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"Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -- Ronald Reagan
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http://lib0131.lib.msu.edu/vvl/011259/public/all/01-1259-107.mp3
(President Ronald Reagan’s) Remarks at an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas
August 23, 1984
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, very much. And, Martha Weisend, thank you very much. And I could say that if the morning ended with the music we have just heard from that magnificent choir, it would indeed be a holy day for all of us. It's wonderful to be here this morning. The past few days have been pretty busy for all of us, but I've wanted to be with you today to share some of my own thoughts.
These past few weeks it seems that we've all been hearing a lot of talk about religion and its role in politics, religion and its place in the political life of the Nation. And I think it's appropriate today, at a prayer breakfast for 17,000 citizens in the State of Texas during a great political convention, that this issue be addressed.
I don't speak as a theologian or a scholar, only as one who's lived a little more than his threescore ten -- which has been a source of annoyance to some -- [laughter] -- and as one who has been active in the political life of the Nation for roughly four decades and now who's served the past 3\1/2\ years in our highest office. I speak, I think I can say, as one who has seen much, who has loved his country, and who's seen it change in many ways.
I believe that faith and religion play a critical role in the political life of our nation -- and always has -- and that the church -- and by that I mean all churches, all denominations -- has had a strong influence on the state. And this has worked to our benefit as a nation.
Those who created our country -- the Founding Fathers and Mothers -- understood that there is a divine order which transcends the human order. They saw the state, in fact, as a form of moral order and felt that the bedrock of moral order is religion.
The Mayflower Compact began with the words, ``In the name of God, amen.'' The Declaration of Independence appeals to ``Nature's God'' and the ``Creator'' and ``the Supreme Judge of the world.'' Congress was given a chaplain, and the oaths of office are oaths before God.
James Madison in the Federalist Papers admitted that in the creation of our Republic he perceived the hand of the Almighty. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, warned that we must never forget the God from whom our blessings flowed.
George Washington referred to religion's profound and unsurpassed place in the heart of our nation quite directly in his Farewell Address in 1796. Seven years earlier, France had erected a government that was intended to be purely secular. This new government would be grounded on reason rather than the law of God. By 1796 the French Revolution had known the Reign of Terror.
And Washington voiced reservations about the idea that there could be a wise policy without a firm moral and religious foundation. He said, ``Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man (call himself a patriot) who (would) labour to subvert these . . . finest [firmest]\1\ (FOOTNOTE) props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere Politician . . . (and) the pious man ought to respect and to cherish (religion and morality).'' And he added, ``. . . let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.''
(FOOTNOTE) \1\White House correction.
I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God, that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City. Religion played not only a strong role in our national life; it played a positive role. The abolitionist movement was at heart a moral and religious movement; so was the modern civil rights struggle. And throughout this time, the state was tolerant of religious belief, expression, and practice. Society, too, was tolerant.
But in the 1960's this began to change. We began to make great steps toward secularizing our nation and removing religion from its honored place.
In 1962 the Supreme Court in the New York prayer case banned the compulsory saying of prayers. In 1963 the Court banned the reading of the Bible in our public schools. From that point on, the courts pushed the meaning of the ruling ever outward, so that now our children are not allowed voluntary prayer. We even had to pass a law -- we passed a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago to allow student prayer groups the same access to schoolrooms after classes that a young Marxist society, for example, would already enjoy with no opposition.
The 1962 decision opened the way to a flood of similar suits. Once religion had been made vulnerable, a series of assaults were made in one court after another, on one issue after another. Cases were started to argue against tax-exempt status for churches. Suits were brought to abolish the words ``under God'' from the Pledge of Allegiance and to remove ``In God We Trust'' from public documents and from our currency.
Today there are those who are fighting to make sure voluntary prayer is not returned to the classrooms. And the frustrating thing for the great majority of Americans who support and understand the special importance of religion in the national life -- the frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom, and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? [Applause] They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.
If all the children of our country studied together all of the many religions in our country, wouldn't they learn greater tolerance of each other's beliefs? If children prayed together, would they not understand what they have in common, and would this not, indeed, bring them closer, and is this not to be desired? So, I submit to you that those who claim to be fighting for tolerance on this issue may not be tolerant at all.
When John Kennedy was running for President in 1960, he said that his church would not dictate his Presidency any more than he would speak for his church. Just so, and proper. But John Kennedy was speaking in an America in which the role of religion -- and by that I mean the role of all churches -- was secure. Abortion was not a political issue. Prayer was not a political issue. The right of church schools to operate was not a political issue. And it was broadly acknowledged that religious leaders had a right and a duty to speak out on the issues of the day. They held a place of respect, and a politician who spoke to or of them with a lack of respect would not long survive in the political arena.
It was acknowledged then that religion held a special place, occupied a special territory in the hearts of the citizenry. The climate has changed greatly since then. And since it has, it logically follows that religion needs defenders against those who care only for the interests of the state.
There are, these days, many questions on which religious leaders are obliged to offer their moral and theological guidance, and such guidance is a good and necessary thing. To know how a church and its members feel on a public issue expands the parameters of debate. It does not narrow the debate; it expands it.
The truth is, politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. If you practice a religion, whether you're Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or guided by some other faith, then your private life will be influenced by a sense of moral obligation, and so, too, will your public life. One affects the other. The churches of America do not exist by the grace of the state; the churches of America are not mere citizens of the state. The churches of America exist apart; they have their own vantage point, their own authority. Religion is its own realm; it makes its own claims.
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. We command no worship. We mandate no belief. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief. All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief, to apply moral teaching to public questions.
I submit to you that the tolerant society is open to and encouraging of all religions. And this does not weaken us; it strengthens us, it makes us strong. You know, if we look back through history to all those great civilizations, those great nations that rose up to even world dominance and then deteriorated, declined, and fell, we find they all had one thing in common. One of the significant forerunners of their fall was their turning away from their God or gods.
Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
If I could just make a personal statement of my own -- in these 3\1/2 years I have understood and known better than ever before the words of Lincoln, when he said that he would be the greatest fool on this footstool called Earth if he ever thought that for one moment he could perform the duties of that office without help from One who is stronger than all.
I thank you, thank you for inviting us here today. Thank you for your kindness and your patience. May God keep you, and may we, all of us, keep God.
Thank you.
Note: The President spoke at 9:26 a.m. at Reunion Arena. He was introduced by Martha Weisend, cochair of the Texas Reagan-Bush campaign.
Ronald Reagan Speech A Time For Choosing
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Words to Contemplate
Always remember you are unique; just like everyone else.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember what you said later.
Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
Duct tape is like "The Force." It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Quotes Worth Remembering
"It is almost a law of history that the same wealth that generates a civilization announces its decay. For wealth produce ease as well as art; it softens a people to the ways of luxury and peace and invites invasion from stronger arms and hungrier mouths." -- Will Durant
Thank you for visiting my page. - OB1