Great Quotes ....

[jackalope]

We're limited to 255 characters for our sigs, and I just found a great quote that I was going to replace my present sig with, but this quote is about 300 characters too long . Anyone else have a great quote that they'd like to share?



"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~~~~ Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005 ~~~~~



It's too bad that our leaders, both past and present, can't/won't learn this fact.

[stucco]

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

[badflash]

Here is what divides the conservative from the liberal:

Quote from William Boetcker (often creditied to Abe Lincoln):
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative
and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could
and should do for themselves.

[badflash]

By today's standards, Jack Kennedy would be considered a far right conservative and villified by the left.

Look what he did-
Went to war to try and stop communism in Viet Nam
Invaded Cuba (Bay of Pigs)
Blockaded Cuba and force the Russians to pull out their missles (Cubin Missle Crisis)
Launched the space race to the moon
Cut taxes by the largest amount in history up to that time.

[urbanfarmer]

By request...

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt

[davidstcldfl]

overheard during a discussion about our current Presidential administration....

I've had all I can stand, I can't stands no more! ....Popeye

....last seen, eating a case of spinach and heading towards DC....

[urbanfarmer]

overheard during a discussion about our current Presidential administration....

I've had all I can stand, I can't stands no more! ....Popeye

....last seen, eating a case of spinach and heading towards DC....

LOL

[stucco]

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."--- Mariah Carey

[stucco]

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
Satchel Paige

[davidstcldfl]

There are two theories to arguing with a woman ... Neither works.

- Will Rogers