Friday, December 23, 2011
Quote of The Day
Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.
- Ronald Reagan
Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.
- Ronald Reagan
I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.
President Andrew Jackson
When bad ideas have nowhere to go, they gravitate to American universities and become courses.
Oscar Wilde
There will be a rifle behind each blade of grass.
Admiral Yammamoto, 1941
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie
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
I keep six honest serving-men
[They taught me all I knew];
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who
Rudyard Kipling
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs 29:2
raising taxes is the enemy of controlling spending.
Mississippi Governor, Haley Barbour
Charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.
Wallace D. Wattles
Elizabeth Kenny
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Samuel Adams
To be Great, Concentrate
Benjamin Franklin
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861