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Favorite political quote?

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NoStateofMind

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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
-Thomas Jefferson


A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
-Thomas Jefferson


All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
-Thomas Jefferson


Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
-Thomas Jefferson


Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
-Thomas Jefferson


Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson


Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
-Ron Paul






I could post Thomas Jefferson's quotes all day, he truly had a grasp on what liberty was. It seems that Ron Paul is the only candidate mentioning anything about liberty. Which is sad. So what are your favorite political quotes?


EDIT: Quotes link
 
As I recall, Thomas Jefferson also said something about periodically refreshing the tree of Liberty with the blood of Tyrants. Almost a psychic reference to GWB and Cheney.
And timid old me is willing to settle for their mere jailing.
 
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

-Aristotle
 
It's in my sig.

"...I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadily resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people." Grover Cleveland
 
"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for." - Tom Robbins
 
Originally posted by: daveshel
"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for." - Tom Robbins
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Totally disagree. Pacifism is an unrealistic, dangerous idea that turns good people into sacrificial sheep at the hands of ignorance and evil.

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-Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

A quote I heard in high school and has stuck with me.
 
I get books of quotes, but here are a few I think are of interest:

First, since the OP likes Jefferson:

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~~ Thomas Jefferson

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
Burke, Edmund

"Only a peace between equals can last." ~~ Woodrow Wilson

"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
-Unknown

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. ~~ Abraham Lincoln

The supreme reality of our time is ? the vulnerability of this planet. ~~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
-Bertrand Russell

"Debt is the slavery of the free ."
PUBLILIUS SYRUS

"To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society ."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion."
- JOhn Kennedy

"If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause a scramble for men and resources, then I would oppose tax reductions as irresponsible and inflationary; and I would not hesitate to recommend a tax increase if that were necessary."
- John Kennedy

"He (John F. Kennedy) leaves little doubt that his idea of the "challenging new world" is one in which the Federal Government will grow bigger and do more and of course spend more.... Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx." (1960)
Ronald Reagan

If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad; if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
- John F. Kennedy
 
Originally posted by: Sinsear
"You made this thread just so you could get a Ron Paul quote in."

-Sinsear
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"I agree with the post I quoted."

-yllus

Edit: I may also have to add "I leave words out of simple sentences."
 
Originally posted by: cwjerome
Originally posted by: daveshel
"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for." - Tom Robbins
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Totally disagree. Pacifism is an unrealistic, dangerous idea that turns good people into sacrificial sheep at the hands of ignorance and evil.
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Who asked you? It is one of my favorite quotes. Your inane comment is not relevant.
 
Originally posted by: daveshel
Originally posted by: cwjerome
Originally posted by: daveshel
"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for." - Tom Robbins
Click to expand...

Totally disagree. Pacifism is an unrealistic, dangerous idea that turns good people into sacrificial sheep at the hands of ignorance and evil.
Click to expand...

Who asked you? It is one of my favorite quotes. Your inane comment is not relevant.
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My bad... I thought this was a forum.
 
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
-- James Madison aka stop taking my money and giving it to others.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot.
Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman.
But, alas, I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain

The best debate quip of all time (at least during my life)
"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience,"
-- Ronald Reagan speaking of Mondale.
 
On the top end of the spectrum:

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits." - James Madison


..and on the bottom:


"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well."

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."




Guess who opined the bottom and win a bag of pretzels!





 
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

(found in Craigs234 sig)
 
"I actually voted for the 87 billion...before I voted against it!" - John Kerry

"Makes Sense"
"I never said I supported it!" - Hillary Clinton
 
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