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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin

"It's not the strongest that survive, not the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change." - Darwin

"The rich require but little legislation. We should, at least occasionally, legislate for the poor." - Congressman David Crockett

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight Eisenhower

"The very young do not always do as they are told." - SG

"Do not stand by my grave and weep for I am not there. I am a thousand miles away." - Unknown

"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoller Nazi Death Camp Survivor

"Government by organized business is as dangerous as government by organized mobs." - Franklin Roosevelt

"Nothing is more pleasing to the eye than a good looking lady, nothing more refreshing to the spirit than the company of one, nothing more flattering to the ego than the affection of one." - Franklin Roosevelt

"There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. If you do the one you're living. If you do the other, you may be walking around but you're as dead as a beaver hat." - John Wayne as Davy Crockett in the Alamo

"I apologize...I do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is -again, in my words, amounts to a shakedown,...So I apoligize." - Rep. Joe Barton Texas Republican and recipient of $100,470 in oil industry contributions apoligizing to BP CEO Tony Hayward.

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death" - Martin Luther King

"The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us." - JFK

"I don't give people hell. I just tell the truth and people think it's hell." - Harry Truman

"Don't meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." - Unknown


07/15/10