Morning Quotes

[WinterStorm]

I lvoe all of these I'm going to print this thread and keep it

[Vulture6]

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers

[Vulture6]

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston S. Churchill

[WinterStorm]

Originally Posted by Vulture6

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston S. Churchill

What truth.

[WinterStorm]

Originally Posted by Vulture6

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers

lol

[Batgirl]

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

- John Keegan

[Batgirl]

It is customary in democratic countries to deplore expenditures on armament as conflicting with the requirements of the social services. There is a tendency to forget that the most important social service that a government can do for its people is to keep them alive and free.

- Air Marshal Sir John Slessor

[Batgirl]

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

- From The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

[Stick]

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

[Batgirl]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

- Robert Heinlein