Do you agree with these?

[DOUG]

> A Brief but AMUSING History Lesson:
>
> If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the
> newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain
>
> Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But
> then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
>
> I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a
> man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -
> Winston Churchill
>
> A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
> of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
>
> A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he
> proposes to pay off with your money. - G. Gordon Liddy
>
> Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what
> to have for dinner. - James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
>
> Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich
> countries to rich people in poor countries. - Douglas Casey,
>
> Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
> teenage boys. - P.J. O Rourke, Civil Libertarian
>
> Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live
> at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat, French Economist
> (1801-1850)
>
> 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. - Ronald Reagan (1986)
>
> I don't make jokes... I just watch the government and report the facts. -
> Will Rogers
>
> If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs
> when it's free! - P.J. O'Rourke
>
> In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as
> possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire
> (1764)
>
> Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
> won't take an interest in you! - Pericles (430 B.C.)
>
> No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
> session. - Mark Twain (1866)
>
> Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. - Unknown
>
> The government is like a baby's alimentary canal: a happy appetite at one
> end and no responsibility at the other. - Ronald Reagan
>
> The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The
> inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -
>
> Winston Churchill
>
> The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
> taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain
>
> The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill
> the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903 )
>
> There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -
> Mark Twain
>
> What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley,
> Artist (1928 - 1995)
>
> AND THE BEST ONE.......
> A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to
> take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

[Trailabite]

These are good!

[Will]

My "South Since Reconstruction Professor threw out a good one this morning,

"If you are not liberal when you are young, you have no heart. If you are not conservative when you are grown, you have no brain." -Churchill 

Or something along those lines. I liked it.

[DOUG]

Here is a historical/philosophical theory that should be very troubling to all Americans.

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
 
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the  University  of  Edinburgh  , had this to say about the fall of the  Athenian   Republic  some 2,000 years earlier:
 
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."
 
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
 
"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
 
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years"
 
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
 
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage"
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law,  St. Paul ,   Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
 
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
 
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
 
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the  United States  is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
 
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

[Trailabite]

Interesting! More evidence for my need to stock pile guns and ammo ;D