***Bumped***
I'm bumping this up to the top tonight to allow those who haven't seen it to participate.
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To commemorate Barack Obama's signing of Porkulus in Denver tomorrow, I'm giving away one of my Stimulus t-shirts to one lucky commenter.
One of you could win this:
But you've got to earn it to win it. This is what you need to do. Just leave a comment with your favorite quote from your favorite conservative/free market/liberty-loving thinker and I will pick my favorite. Those quotes that are especially pertinent to current events are encouraged but not necessary. If two or more people pick the same quote I will choose the one who suggested it first. You have until Friday, February 20th at 5:00pm. The winner will be announced at 8:00pm.
Good luck!
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A government big enough to ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Jason | February 16, 2009 6:40 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Jefferson
1. Posted by Jason | February 16, 2009 6:40 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 18:40
2. Posted by Yogurt![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| February 16, 2009 6:42 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
2. Posted by Yogurt![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| February 16, 2009 6:42 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 18:42
3. Posted by Clay | February 16, 2009 6:53 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous." ~Ludwig Von Mises
3. Posted by Clay | February 16, 2009 6:53 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 18:53
4. Posted by Mike in Oregon![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| February 16, 2009 6:59 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. Dr. Adrian Rogers
4. Posted by Mike in Oregon![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| February 16, 2009 6:59 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 18:59
5. Posted by HughS | February 16, 2009 7:05 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Does it have to fit on a tee shirt, Kim?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x59wNGHe6iI&feature=related
5. Posted by HughS | February 16, 2009 7:05 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:05
6. Posted by GarandFan | February 16, 2009 7:07 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
6. Posted by GarandFan | February 16, 2009 7:07 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:07
7. Posted by The Last of the Duke Street Kings | February 16, 2009 7:10 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"Democracy is the principle that the common people know what they want and deserve it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
7. Posted by The Last of the Duke Street Kings | February 16, 2009 7:10 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:10
8. Posted by DaveD | February 16, 2009 7:14 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
-Hayek
8. Posted by DaveD | February 16, 2009 7:14 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:14
9. Posted by AJ | February 16, 2009 7:28 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan
9. Posted by AJ | February 16, 2009 7:28 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:28
10. Posted by Jeff Setaro | February 16, 2009 7:34 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"The 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
10. Posted by Jeff Setaro | February 16, 2009 7:34 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:34
11. Posted by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | February 16, 2009 7:34 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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And this should win since I understand our newly elected pres removed the bust of Winston Churchill today...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html
11. Posted by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | February 16, 2009 7:34 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:34
12. Posted by Tom Blogical | February 16, 2009 7:43 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan.
12. Posted by Tom Blogical | February 16, 2009 7:43 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:43
13. Posted by Steve Schippert | February 16, 2009 7:45 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"We're at war with the most dangerous enemy to face mankind since his long climb from the swamp to the stars. And it's been said that if we lose this war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, that history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening."
-- Ronald Reagan (1964)
13. Posted by Steve Schippert | February 16, 2009 7:45 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:45
14. Posted by brad | February 16, 2009 7:54 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."
Ayn Rand
14. Posted by brad | February 16, 2009 7:54 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 19:54
15. Posted by hpb | February 16, 2009 8:12 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
It isn't that liberals are ignorant, its just that they know so much that isn't so.
-- Ronald Reagan
15. Posted by hpb | February 16, 2009 8:12 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 20:12
16. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 8:17 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
CONSERVATISM wins every time it is tried - Ann Coulter (of course she isnt talking about the liberal "conservatism" that most "republicans" practise.
16. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 8:17 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 20:17
17. Posted by Gmac | February 16, 2009 8:19 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"The state is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frederic Bastiat 1848
"We are so screwed."
Me 11/5//08
17. Posted by Gmac | February 16, 2009 8:19 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 20:19
18. Posted by Rick13 | February 16, 2009 8:31 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
Ronald Reagan
18. Posted by Rick13 | February 16, 2009 8:31 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 20:31
19. Posted by Mike G in Corvallis | February 16, 2009 9:03 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"Well sure, the government lies. And the newspapers lie. But in a democracy they aren't the same lies."
-- Alexis A. Gilliland
19. Posted by Mike G in Corvallis | February 16, 2009 9:03 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:03
20. Posted by Mike G in Corvallis | February 16, 2009 9:12 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
20. Posted by Mike G in Corvallis | February 16, 2009 9:12 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:12
21. Posted by Mike G in Corvallis | February 16, 2009 9:14 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
21. Posted by Mike G in Corvallis | February 16, 2009 9:14 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:14
22. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 9:31 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - -- Thomas Jefferson
22. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 9:31 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:31
23. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 9:32 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
KING. What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day
---------
Shakespeare
23. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 9:32 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:32
24. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 9:35 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
CS Lewis
24. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 9:35 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:35
25. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 9:42 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy"
Charles de Montesquieu
25. Posted by retired military | February 16, 2009 9:42 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:42
26. Posted by Alan Orfi | February 16, 2009 9:46 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"I say it is time we fight back. We must strip off everything that hides our greatness, beauty and unique national identity. We must rebuff the dullness of apathy. We must scrub away the filthy lies of the Left and get back to those freedoms with their inherit limitations which distinguish us from the rest of the world. We must act while there is still time to reclaim our former glory."
-- Michael Savage (The Enemy Within)
26. Posted by Alan Orfi | February 16, 2009 9:46 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:46
27. Posted by Rickbert![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| February 16, 2009 9:48 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"Arguing principle from convenience is no principle at all." - Rickbert
27. Posted by Rickbert![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| February 16, 2009 9:48 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 21:48
28. Posted by _Mike_ | February 16, 2009 10:08 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar Wilde
28. Posted by _Mike_ | February 16, 2009 10:08 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 22:08
29. Posted by Margi | February 16, 2009 10:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. Alexis de Toqueville
29. Posted by Margi | February 16, 2009 10:31 PM |
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Posted on February 16, 2009 22:31
30. Posted by Peter F. | February 16, 2009 10:35 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"Government isn't the solution to the problem; government is the problem."
--Ronald Reagan
30. Posted by Peter F. | February 16, 2009 10:35 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 22:35
31. Posted by brainy435 | February 16, 2009 10:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Benjamin Franklin
31. Posted by brainy435 | February 16, 2009 10:45 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 22:45
32. Posted by brainy435 | February 16, 2009 10:50 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
Benjamin Frankin
32. Posted by brainy435 | February 16, 2009 10:50 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 22:50
33. Posted by VagaBond | February 16, 2009 11:32 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." - Ronald Reagan
33. Posted by VagaBond | February 16, 2009 11:32 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 16, 2009 23:32
34. Posted by Mike | February 17, 2009 1:03 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"Go f**k yourself."
V.P. Dick Cheney to Sen. Patrick Leahy
(I know this might not stay published for long and it doesn't stand a ****'s chance of winning, but it IS my favorite.)
34. Posted by Mike | February 17, 2009 1:03 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 01:03
35. Posted by proof | February 17, 2009 1:18 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
Everett Dirksen
35. Posted by proof | February 17, 2009 1:18 AM |
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Posted on February 17, 2009 01:18
36. Posted by Arthur | February 17, 2009 1:36 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money"
- Margaret Thatcher.
36. Posted by Arthur | February 17, 2009 1:36 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 01:36
37. Posted by proof | February 17, 2009 2:13 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot!"
-Henry Morgenthau, FDR's Treasury secretary
37. Posted by proof | February 17, 2009 2:13 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 02:13
38. Posted by Imee | February 17, 2009 4:28 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm not here to join the contest but I want to contribute a line that never left my mind. It's by Reagan, and it goes something like "The government isn't the solution to the problem--the government IS the problem."
38. Posted by Imee | February 17, 2009 4:28 AM |
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Posted on February 17, 2009 04:28
39. Posted by Dennis Robbins | February 17, 2009 6:27 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII.
39. Posted by Dennis Robbins | February 17, 2009 6:27 AM |
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Posted on February 17, 2009 06:27
40. Posted by Aye Chihuahua | February 17, 2009 6:37 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors [money] of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they [the people] will be happy."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1802
40. Posted by Aye Chihuahua | February 17, 2009 6:37 AM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 06:37
41. Posted by iwogisdead | February 17, 2009 7:36 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
--Alexis de Tocqueville
41. Posted by iwogisdead | February 17, 2009 7:36 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 07:36
42. Posted by retired miilitary | February 17, 2009 7:56 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Ignorance is bliss - Author unknown
42. Posted by retired miilitary | February 17, 2009 7:56 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 07:56
43. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 7:57 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector."
Ronald Reagan
43. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 7:57 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 07:57
44. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 7:58 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them"
Aldous Huxley
44. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 7:58 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 07:58
45. Posted by retired miilitary | February 17, 2009 8:00 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
45. Posted by retired miilitary | February 17, 2009 8:00 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:00
46. Posted by retired militiry | February 17, 2009 8:02 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power."
Harmon Killebrew
46. Posted by retired militiry | February 17, 2009 8:02 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:02
47. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 8:05 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all."
-- Benito Mussolini
47. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 8:05 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:05
48. Posted by Rick13 | February 17, 2009 8:06 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"Great nations have responsibilities to lead and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile because they might just wind up lowering our flag."
Ronald Reagan
48. Posted by Rick13 | February 17, 2009 8:06 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:06
49. Posted by retired miiitary | February 17, 2009 8:06 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead."
-- John Frohnmayer
49. Posted by retired miiitary | February 17, 2009 8:06 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:06
50. Posted by retired miitary | February 17, 2009 8:07 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure."
-- Keith Davis
50. Posted by retired miitary | February 17, 2009 8:07 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:07
51. Posted by retired miitary | February 17, 2009 8:10 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"The stakes involved in Washington policy debates are often so high-- whether we send our young men and women to war; whether we allow stem cell research to go forward-- that even small differences in perspective are magnified. The demands of party loyalty, the imperative of campaigns, and the amplification of conflict by the media all contribute to an atmosphere of suspicion. Moreover, most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives-- professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems. I can see how, after a certain amount of time in the capital, it becomes tempting to assume that those who disagree with you have fundamentally different values-- indeed, that they are motivated by bad faith, and perhaps are bad people."
Barrack Obama
(Ironic isnt it)
51. Posted by retired miitary | February 17, 2009 8:10 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:10
52. Posted by iwogisdead | February 17, 2009 8:11 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
--Thomas Jefferson
52. Posted by iwogisdead | February 17, 2009 8:11 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:11
53. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 8:17 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results." - Author unknown.
53. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 8:17 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 08:17
54. Posted by Pretzel Logic | February 17, 2009 9:04 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"Without Jimmy Carter, we would not have had Ronald Reagan"
Me
54. Posted by Pretzel Logic | February 17, 2009 9:04 AM |
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Posted on February 17, 2009 09:04
55. Posted by Big Mo | February 17, 2009 9:49 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
President Ulysses S. Grant vetoed the Stimulus Porkulous of his day, the inflation act of 1874, which was designed by a Congress desperate to "do something" to combat the Panic (depression) of 1873 by increasing greenbacks (money not backed by government gold). Under tremendous pressure to sign the bill, he wrote out elegant reasons for giving his approval, arguing that it wouldn't mean inflation, that it wouldn't affect the country's credit and that it would truly help people, not hurt:
"When I finished my wonderful message, I read it over and said to myself, 'What is the good of all of this? You do not believe it. You know it is not true.' Throwing it aside I resolved to do what I believed to be right, veto the bill! I could not stand my own arguments."
(He vetoed the bill and immediately promoted the Specie Resumption Act of 1875, which, when it finally became law in 1879, effectively ended the Panic.)
55. Posted by Big Mo | February 17, 2009 9:49 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 09:49
56. Posted by Falze | February 17, 2009 9:50 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"This liberal would be all about socializing -- uh, uh, would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."
-Maxine Waters
Oh, wait...not exactly what Kim had in mind, is it? Let's see:
"I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years...I am a believer in knowing what you're doing when you apply for a job, and I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in the Senate. There may be some who are comfortable with doing that, but I'm not one of those people."
-Barack Obama (2004)
Dang, I'll have to keep looking for a good one. Sorry for the interruption.
56. Posted by Falze | February 17, 2009 9:50 AM |
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Posted on February 17, 2009 09:50
57. Posted by Big Mo | February 17, 2009 9:56 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
More great ones from Grant:
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
"If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
57. Posted by Big Mo | February 17, 2009 9:56 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on February 17, 2009 09:56
58. Posted by Big Mo | February 17, 2009 10:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
President Eisehower:
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
58. Posted by Big Mo | February 17, 2009 10:07 AM |
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Posted on February 17, 2009 10:07
59. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 10:17 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
At the battle of Asculum in 279 BC, the Greek king Pyrrhus defeated a Roman legion, but at frightful cost to his own troops. When sycophantic courtiers congratulated him on his "great victory," Pyrrhus responded: "one more such victory, and we shall be undone."
From http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/obama_is_big_on_symbolism.html
59. Posted by retired military | February 17, 2009 10:17 AM |
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Posted on February 17, 2009 10:17
60. Posted by Shoobs | February 17, 2009 10:42 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
......It really never was an economic stimulus plan. It is now and always has been a government growth and Democrat job insurance plan.......
-Neal Boortz
60. Posted by Shoobs | February 17, 2009 10:42 AM |
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61. Posted by bobdog | February 17, 2009 10:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My vote is for Tom Blogical:
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan.
Give that man a T-Shirt.
61. Posted by bobdog | February 17, 2009 10:54 AM |
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62. Posted by maggie | February 17, 2009 11:08 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Here's mine Kim, although not eligible for the prize.
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Spencer Roane, 9 March 1821
Maggie
62. Posted by maggie | February 17, 2009 11:08 AM |
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63. Posted by Brian Richard Allen![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| February 17, 2009 11:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Socialism is (but) the grandiose rationalization (and institutionalization) of petty resentments."
-- Ludwig Von Mises (Apologies to)
Brian Richard Allen
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| February 17, 2009 11:41 AM |
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64. Posted by Brian Richard Allen![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://wizbangblog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| February 17, 2009 11:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If Man had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until he was secure, his search would never have begun."
-- C S Lewis
Brian Richard Allen
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| February 17, 2009 11:43 AM |
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65. Posted by scrub_oak | February 17, 2009 11:55 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
Adrian Rogers
65. Posted by scrub_oak | February 17, 2009 11:55 AM |
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66. Posted by P. Bunyan | February 17, 2009 11:58 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime"--Author unknown
66. Posted by P. Bunyan | February 17, 2009 11:58 AM |
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67. Posted by boqueronman | February 17, 2009 12:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Very nicely done. On message and not inflammatory. One might even have a better than even chance of wearing it to the mall and not be screamed at or have objects heaved at you.
67. Posted by boqueronman | February 17, 2009 12:27 PM |
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68. Posted by Jason | February 17, 2009 12:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
T. Jefferson
68. Posted by Jason | February 17, 2009 12:41 PM |
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69. Posted by THIRDWAVEDAVE | February 17, 2009 12:41 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
"Any politician should be put in jail who votes for an appropriation bill and fails to vote the tax to pay for it."--General George S. Patton, Jr.
69. Posted by THIRDWAVEDAVE | February 17, 2009 12:41 PM |
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70. Posted by R Clay | February 17, 2009 12:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
We're gonna be in the Hudson.--Chesley Sullenburger
Different context but still true.
70. Posted by R Clay | February 17, 2009 12:50 PM |
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71. Posted by Jason | February 17, 2009 12:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The only thing that can cure poverty is wealth.
Thomas Sowell
71. Posted by Jason | February 17, 2009 12:57 PM |
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72. Posted by Abigail | February 17, 2009 1:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
- Ronald Reagan
72. Posted by Abigail | February 17, 2009 1:08 PM |
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73. Posted by epador | February 17, 2009 1:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. Kin Hubbard
73. Posted by epador | February 17, 2009 1:27 PM |
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74. Posted by Dan Cleary | February 17, 2009 1:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Woe to the president who imagines he needn't inspire fear among the wicked even as he embraces the adulation of the good." -- Bret Stephens
74. Posted by Dan Cleary | February 17, 2009 1:31 PM |
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75. Posted by Jason | February 17, 2009 1:34 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
75. Posted by Jason | February 17, 2009 1:34 PM |
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76. Posted by Andrea Shea King | February 17, 2009 2:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician." --General George S. Patton, Jr.
76. Posted by Andrea Shea King | February 17, 2009 2:51 PM |
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