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Posted on 11/07/2002 10:37:56 AM PST by MTCJK
Although I am sure this has been done a number of times, please post your favorites for all to enjoy. I have started with a few of my own, and will give full credit to all YOU for these, none are my own originals
"The Clintons are parasites, with the Democratic party their willing host."
"Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore, it's too crowded."
"If you are not a liberal by the time you are twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by the time you are thirty, you have no brain."
LOL! Or how about this one? "It caused more uproar than a mouse in a burlesque show".
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"Always tell a woman she is beautiful unless she is very,very beautiful or very,very ugly; then praise her on her understanding." --Lord Chesterfield
"If a lady says 'no', she means 'maybe'. If a lady says 'maybe', she means 'yes'. If a lady says 'yes', she's no lady."-- Lord Chesterfield
"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one third the money twenty years ago."
"Things in our country run in spite of government. Not by aid of it!"
"...I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't."
"Diplomacy is saying nice doggie until you can pick up a rock"
"We are here just for a spell and then pass on...So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead."
The NRA has a point about the inadvisability of simply taking guns away from the populace. If that were possible, it would not disarm that small percentage of the population willing to break the law.... Punishing people who obey the law is backward thinking. -- Hugh Downs, Veteran ABC newsman
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. -- Thomas Sowell
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, "An Autobiography", page 446
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them. -- Walter Mondale, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 4/20/94
If all Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. -- Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 9, 1949
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H.L. Mencken
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the government fears the People, that is Liberty. When the People fear the Government, that is tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. -- Gary Lloyd
"A well-regulated electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed." Does that mean only well-educated people have a right to own and read books? Then how can this: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." . . . possibly mean only members of the militia [or National Guard] have a right to own and bear arms? -- Claire Wolfe
The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security. -- FBI Director Louis Freeh (1993)
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.) -- Tacitus
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