Maybe this will be fun.

[Hugo Chavez]

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"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! "--Patrick Henry

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

If you ask me, such a large portion of our citizens have lost all morality.  I couldn't begin to count the number of people I've encountered who only have their own selfish needs and desires to guide them.  I don't think we need to be religious to have that but the fact is we've quickly become a selfish people and that translates to evil deeds which threaten the fabric of the country from the top to the bottom and in this comes the call for order where it would not have transpired with a true moral majority.  Oh my god, I can't believe those words came from my mouth.  Having said it, I think there is a false morality and a misconception and lie about what is and isn't moral perpetuated by religious extremists.  So is the answer Order, or is the correct answer to be found in a return to morality and away from selfish behavior?  James Madison said, "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform them."
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."  John Adams

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."  William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the world that a free man, contending for his liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."  George Washington

"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."  James Madison

"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it."  John Adams

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide." And, "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. But a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."--John Adams

[boonasty]

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Winston Churchill

 

[Soul Crusher]

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Winston Churchill

 

"The Government breaks your legs, hands you a crutch, and demands gratitude that now you can walk"  - Harry Browne

[Kazan]

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.” 

Alexander Tytler

[Hugo Chavez]

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”  

Alexander Tytler

cool quote, interesting read on that quote with several other similar and backgrounds:
http://lorencollins.net/tytler.html


"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." —Groucho Marx

[James]

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
-Winston Churchill

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. "
-Winston Churchill

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt


"Government's duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
-Ronald Reagan

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."
-Ronald Reagan

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
-Ronald Reagan

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
-Ronald Reagan


"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
-Thomas Jefferson

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
-Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. "
-Thomas Jefferson


"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. 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 Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." - Reverend Martin Niemoller, Germany, 1930's

[Hereford]

"only listen to Fox.  Fact is they never lie"

Hugo Chavez