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Sunday, January 27, 2013

QUOTES OF THE DAY 1-26-13

“In some professions, a large part of the time of first-rate people is spent countering the half-baked ideas of second-rate people and trying to salvage something from the wreckage of the disasters they create.” — Thomas Sowell

“What is this oozing behemoth, this fibrous tumor, this monster of power and expense hatched from the simple human desire for civic order? How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?” — P. J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores

“The government is good at one thing…it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See, if it weren’t for the government you wouldn’t be able to walk‘.” — Harry Browne

“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The ‘private sector’ of the economy is, in fact, the ‘voluntary’ sector; and…the ‘public sector’ is, in fact, the ‘coercive’ sector.” — Henry Hazlitt

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” — Thomas Paine

“It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is ‘public service,’ but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.” — Thomas Sowell

4 comments:

lmclain said...

Where is the "you don't have a clue" parrot to counter these insane, tin-foil hat nutcases? Oh. I'm sorry. He doesn't have clue about history, facts, or does he know any of the names of the men quoted here. It helps him cope with a much too complicated world for his limited mental capacity...where ya at, ANONYMOUS????

Anonymous said...

..where ya at, ANONYMOUS????

January 27, 2013 at 10:57 PM

I'm right here dude. I love ya man, even if you don't have a clue.

lmclain said...

Ok...still anonymous, though, huh? Cool by me. And love is what we are supposed to do, clueless or not. You know what I'm sayin'.....

Anonymous said...

lmclain said...
Ok...still anonymous, though, huh? Cool by me. And love is what we are supposed to do, clueless or not. You know what I'm sayin'.....

January 28, 2013 at 2:43 PM

Absolutely my friend.

But my little experiment was to show you how it felt when someone calls another they are clueless, on a public forum no less.

I hope I have taught you something and you will try to refrain from saying I or anyone else is clueless.

There may have been a better way on doing that than I did, but I hope mine was effective.

That said, I will stop now. I don't hate you nor have any ill will towards you.

And btw, it wasn't just for you. It also if for the others who do such things.

We are ALL getting too mean to one another lately and this was my attempt to tone it down a little.

I'm not all that smart so excuse my primitive methods.

Peace.