Iacobus Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ~James A. Baldwin The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P. J. O'Rourke (Conseative new paper writer, I LOVE PJ!) Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end—poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio. ~PJ O'Rourke There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ~Alfred E. Wiggam Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~George F. Will While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ~St. Francis of Assisi Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. ~Mark Twain The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. ~John F. Kennedy Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~Albert Einstein Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ~Guy de Maupassant What luck for rulers, that men do not think. ~Adolf Hitler The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. ~Adolf Hitler, [i]Mein Kampf[/i] Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ~Henry A. Kissinger Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~John Stuart Mill (Sorry, lol I am a liberal, got to brag a bit, lol) The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. ~Deng Xiaoping Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~Dwight Morrow We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart L. Udall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ~St. Francis of Assisi Wise St. Francis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacobus Posted July 6, 2004 Author Share Posted July 6, 2004 When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." ~Theodore Roosevelt (SOOOO true sometimes) To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very properity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. ~Theodore Roosevelt The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ~Theodore Roosevelt The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ~Theodore Roosevelt The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. ~Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ~Theodore Roosevelt A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ~Theodore Roosevelt Some TR quotes to balance the scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." ~Theodore Roosevelt (SOOOO true sometimes) :rotfl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey's_Girl Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 See, unlike Michael Moore, you present other possibilities! (No no, I'm not hijacking the thread--I just wanted to tease a bit!) I LOVE TEDDY ROOSEVELT! Thank you for including quotes by him. He's always fun. :wub: MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacobus Posted July 6, 2004 Author Share Posted July 6, 2004 LOL! I love TR, therefore I balanced. PJ is GOP and I quoted him. But the funny things is... all his quotes I could find ripped on the GOP but he would always defend each person, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosey Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 "Even when a man is listening, he is gonna get it wrong." "I know an elephant never forgets but I forget what the elephant remembered."-Yet another quote from Ed "It is better to have loved and lost, than lost and found."-Ed I know I already posted this quote in another thread but I cant get enough of it! "Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle."-Groucho Marx "Enough talking, time for some screaming."-Eris Goddess of discord "Love is the willingness to lay down your life for the beloved."-Fr. John Corapi "It is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasley black guts out."-Captain Jack Sparrow "I'd love to chat, tea, cake, the whole shebang, but I have a ship to launch and you have your outfit to buff up."-Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet "The reason the Hulk is so mad is because he cant pick his wedgies"-My brilliant brother Daniel "I dont know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."-Bilbo Baggins "Boys, cant live with 'em, cant grind 'em into chalk dust."-Spinelli "What's that? I think it's the sound of no one caring."-Eddy "Miracles are to those who believe in them."-W. Gurney Benham "Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love of goodness or joy"-C.S. Lewis "One does not fall into love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."-Karl Menninger A lot of these are in my AIM profile [url="http://www.buddyprofile.com/viewprofile.php?username=Vendea&u=Moosey320"]here[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 how about "Every year, Mickey Mouse looks better and better for president." I don't remember who it's by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GirlInTheWhiteArmor Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 My mom loves this one... Statistics are to be used as a drunk man uses lamp posts: for support rather than illumination... GK Chesterton. hehehehehe..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voiciblanche Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 [quote name='Iacobus' date='Jul 6 2004, 01:00 AM'] The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. [/quote] So true. [quote]Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~Albert Einstein[/quote] He really was a genius... Though some of these are very, very true, you are extremely biased, Jacob. There are absolutely no quotes that poke at liberals, which isn't really fair. Oh, and about the one that says most dumb people are conservatives - that's not really true at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 [quote name='Lil Red' date='Jul 6 2004, 10:51 AM'] how about "Every year, Mickey Mouse looks better and better for president." I don't remember who it's by. [/quote] right now I would sooooooo agree with this one LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacobus Posted July 6, 2004 Author Share Posted July 6, 2004 I looked for some poke fun at liberals, didn't find many. I asked Colleen for some (LOL!) and she said something about being anti anti anti or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 [quote name='Iacobus' date='Jul 6 2004, 06:41 PM']I looked for some poke fun at liberals, didn't find many. I asked Colleen for some (LOL!) and she said something about being anti anti anti or something.[/quote] What did I say? I don't remember. that was like, three in the morning. I'll mention my quotes, though: For Iacobus: The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. -- G.K. Chesterton The purpose of all wars is peace. -- St. Augustine Fun quotes: English aristocrats hunting foxes -- the unspeakable chasing the un-eatable. ~Oscar Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ~Oscar Wilde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ~Oscar Wilde For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? ~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of coagulated milk. ~G. K.Chesterton I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. ~G.K. Chesterton Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... ~J.R.R. Tolkien Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde If you tell grown-ups, "I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves on the roof...," they won't be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, "I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs." Then they exclaim, "What a pretty house!" ~The Little Prince I've never let my school interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justfran Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Saw this one in a [url="http://www.gingermeggs.com"]Ginger Meggs[/url] comic just today: "Youth is fleeting, but immaturity can last a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Daddy Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 [font="Courier"]"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." --Barry Goldwater[/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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