Favorite Quotes...From Ben Franklin Or Whomever...

[NPC 6060⁸42]

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"The mirage of social justice allows us to indulge in moralistic condemnation of others without ourselves taking any risks or making any sacrifices."​

-Friedrich August von Hayek​

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."​

-Thomas Sowell​

 

[Spazbyt]

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"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."​

-Thomas Sowell​

Damn, that quote hits hard.

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again."

-Ronald Reagan

 

[AZVAJKU]

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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”​

-Peter Drucker​

 

[NPC 6060⁸42]

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"Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again."

-Ronald Reagan

Oh how much we need him now.

 

[WJCO]

"If you're not on a government watchlist by now, you should be ashamed of yourself." -Anonymous

 

[AZVAJKU]

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“Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”​

-Lord Acton​

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."​

-James Madison​

 

[Mike Pierson]

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"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."

-James Madison​

Only problem is our “fountain of power” is made up of a bunch of pansies.

 

[AZVAJKU]

Only problem is our “fountain of power” is made up of a bunch of pansies.

Yup. Self-determination takes effort, many individuals cannot or will not do the work. Or as the kids say today: “Freedom is hard yo!”

 

[AZVAJKU]

 

[Brute]

"If you're the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room"

Confucius

 

[AZVAJKU]

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“A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him.”​

-Yuri Bezmenov​

* (KGB press and propaganda agent (alleged), APN journalist, later defector/informant, anti-communist author)

 

[AZVAJKU]

 

[WJCO]

When one door closes, another one opens. -Boeing

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"The power to tax involves the power to destroy."​

-John Marshall​

 

[AZVAJKU]

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"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society."​

-Frédéric Bastiat​

 

[AZVAJKU]

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

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