Memorable Quotes

Memorable Quotes

• "There's no human tragedy that can't be made worse by the presence of a policeman" -- Irish saying
• "Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen" -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
• "...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them."
  
  - Margaret Thatcher, in a television interview for Thames TV This Week on February 5, 1976
  
  Popularly paraphrased as
  "Socialism works until you run out of other people's money."
• "Although life may be meaningless, I have hope in death!" -- Anon
• "Every time History repeats itself, the price goes up" -- Anon
• "Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them" -- Robert Wilson Lynd
• "Guns only have two enemies - rust and politicians" -- Anon
• "We're surrounded - That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them - Now we can shoot at those bastards in every direction." -- USMC Lieutenant General Lewis "Chesty" Puller
• "A Government big enough to give you everything, is big enough to take it away" - Thomas Jefferson
• "If you cannot stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in front of them" -- Anon
• "Everything rolls downhill, and DC was built in a swamp" -- Anon
• "Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers." -- Email Truth
• "No good deed ever goes unpunished" -- Anon
• "If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read it you are misinformed" --- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
• "When the government lies to you, it's for your own good!" --- Archie Bunker
• "Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones who mind, don't matter" -- Anon
• "It takes a whole lot more energy to find the truth than it does to believe a lie" -- Anon
• "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance" -- Shakespeare
• "When politicians feel the heat they see the light" -- Anon
• "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves" -- Anon
• "Only those that risk going too far find out how far they can go" -- Anon
• "Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master." -- P.T. Barnum
• "Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars." -- Anon
• "Ruger is coming out with a new pistol in honor of Senators and Representatives. It will be named the "Congressman". It doesn't work and you can't fire it." -- Email Humor
• "The greater the number of statutes, the greater the number of thieves and brigands." -- Lao-Tzu
• "A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right!" -- Anon
• "Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for." -- Will Rogers
• "When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot easily be cured of it." -- Anon
• "Taxing is an easy business." -- Edmund Burke
• "When Congress talks of tax reform, grab your wallet and run for cover." -- Senator STEVE SYMMS of Idaho
• "The difference between an ostrich and the average voter is where they stick their heads." -- Anon
• "Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts." -- Arthor C. Clarke
• "If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.”" -- Old Farmer's Almanac
• "There's nothing more dangerous than the U.S. Congress with an idea." -- E. Patrick McGuire
• "The alternative minimum tax is a perfect example of a lack of common sense in the tax code." -- Nina Olson
• "Congress has a lot of respect for logic - they use it so sparingly." -- Jeff Schnepper
• "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
• "Taxation is the art of plucking the chicken so as to get the maximum number of feathers with the minimum amount of squawking." -- Louis Renn from Peter Vico, CPA
• "To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." -- Thomas Edison
• "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." -- Cicero 55 BC
• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. --- Milton Friedman
• "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of reality." --- Ayn Rand
• "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." --- J. Paul Getty
• "Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." --- Ayn Rand
• "A little of everything constitutes a whole lot of nothing." --- Rene Mason
• "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo." --- anon
• "There are two ways to argue with a woman - neither one works" --- Will Rogers
• "Cold fusion devices run on pure unobtainium, and produce power in the zeptowatt range." -- Steve Spence
• "Survivalists are cursed with enough intelligence and awareness to deny them the blissful ignorance under which most others live their lives." --- Rourke
• Robert Heinlein Quotes:
  
  
  1. "Democracies usually collapse not too long after the plebes discover that they can vote themselves both bread and circuses ...for a while."
  2. "A committee is a life form with six or more legs -- and no brain."
  3. "An armed society is a polite society."
  4. "Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."
  5. "A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright."
  6. "Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
  7. "The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive."
  8. "Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor."
  9. "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, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
• Ronald Reagen Quotes:
  
  
  1. "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it."
  2. "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
  3. "Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
  4. "I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."
  5. "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
  6. "The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."
  7. "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
  8. "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."
  9. "If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under."
• John Wayne Quotes:
  
  
  1. "Money cannot buy happiness but its more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle."
  2. "Forgive your enemy but remember the bastard's name."
  3. "Help someone when they are in trouble and they will remember you when they're in trouble again."
  4. "Many people are alive only because it's illegal to shoot them."
  5. "Alcohol does not solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk."
• Thomas Jefferson Quotes:
  
  
  1. "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
  2. "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
  3. "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
  4. "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
  5. "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
  6. "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
  7. "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
  8. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
  9. "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
  10. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." (said in 1802)