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A government with the power to give you every thing you have is a government with power to take everything you need.



who's this from?

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Shit man, I think I should know this...It's familiar to me, I just don't know where from...
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i think the qoute should go:

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."

...do i get a prize if i know who said that ???

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater
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Liberalism is not an affiliation; its a curable disease

Always do right. This will gratify many people, and astonish the rest.
~Wisdom of Shawnshuefus

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Some of favorites

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
Roosevelt, Theodore

"Individuality is the aim of political liberty."
Cooper, James Fenimore

"Love of country is like love of woman”he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
Adler, Felix

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty."
Aristotle
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Liberalism is not an affiliation; its a curable disease

Always do right. This will gratify many people, and astonish the rest.
~Wisdom of Shawnshuefus

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"A generation that acquires knowledge without ever understanding how that knowledge can benefit the community is a generation that is not learning what it means to be citizens in a democracy."
Hollander, Elizabeth L.

"The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen."
Brandeis, Louis D.

Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote

"The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men."
Plato
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Always do right. This will gratify many people, and astonish the rest.
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Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

Robert Heinlein

The Universe - Love It or Leave It
Anonymous

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Beatrice Hall in The Friends of Voltaire, 1906

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"goth chicks are like cheap vodka - quick to get you fucked, easy to see through, and bad for the nerves."

- raum, about 15 minutes ago.

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"Uh, Lord, hallowed be thy name. May our feet be swift; may our bats be mighty; may our balls be plentiful. Lord, I'd just like to thank you for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is ” she kept calling your name. And God, these are good girls, and they work hard. Just help them see it all the way through. OK, that's it."
League of their own
Jimmy Dugan

"If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says. At the end of the game, in my book, we're gonna be winners."
Hoosiers
Coach Norman Dale
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"People, I just want to say, you know, can't we all just get along?"
Rodney King

"One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine."
William Hartnell (aka Doctor Who)

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