What other quotes, such as the one below, seem fitting with today's political times?
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ President Abraham Lincoln\n\nA people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower\n\nThe alliance between business and goverment is by definition... Fascism. ~ (unknown)\n\nThe people who vote decide nothing. The people who count the vote decide everything. ~ Joseph Stalin\n\nPolitical correctness is just tyranny with manners. ~ Charlton Heston\n\n    * Wherever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. ~ President Harry S Truman\n\n\nThose who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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We're all betting our futures on this election.\nhttp://judgeright.blogspot.com
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Quotes can be funny.\nQuotes can be true.\nQuotes can be sad.\nQuotes can describe you.\nQuotes can be false.\nQuotes can be blue.\nQuotes are timeless.\nQuotes, that are perfect, are so few.\n\nThese are some of the ones that I think near perfection.\n\nLife begins to end when we are silent about the things that matter.         Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nDo not take life too seriously.  You will never get out of it alive.                       Elbert Hubbard\n\nDo not wait for perfection because it will never come.  Take who you are and what you have, and work with it.                                    Joseph Matthews\n\nLove is, above all, the gift of oneself.\n                                       Jean Anouilh
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It could be this one:\n\n"For only the truth which edifies is truth for you."
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Thomas Jefferson is my political hero so it's not surprising that I agree wholeheartedly. Interestingly, one of Jefferson's contemporaries in Great Britain made a similar quotation which happens to be a personal favourite of mine. His name was Edmund Burke and this is what he said:\n\n"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."\n\nSee the similarity? Basically, the message is the same and it's particularly relevant today. If good men and women of conscience are unwilling to stand up and be counted, to speak out or to take action when necessary, then the villains win. Of course it's easier and safer to remain silent like sheep in the fold, but is the easy and safe way always best? I hardly think so. Sometimes you have to make a stand, take up a cause or vote with your feet. And some causes are quite literally worth fighting and dying for. If others who came before us hadn't thought so and demonstrated that belief at the cost of their own lives, where would we be now?
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"You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down--up to a man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order--or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course."\n\n"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they are going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer and they've had almost 30 years of it, shouldn't we expect government to almost read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn't they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? The reduction in the need for public housing?"\n\n"A young man, 21 years of age, working at an average salary...his Social Security contribution would, in the open market, buy him an insurance policy that would guarantee $220 a month at age 65. The government promises $127. He could live it up until he is 31 and then take out a policy that would pay more than Social Security. Now, are we so lacking in business sense that we can't put this program on a sound basis so that people who do require those payments will find that they can get them when they are due...that the cupboard isn't bare?"\n\n"Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."\n\n"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."
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"I love the fact that this is quite obviously a clever joke and not everyone has got it. HE'S IN TWO MINDS AS TO SEEK HELP. COME ON PEOPLE! Pay attention!"\n\nI love the above quote.\n\nAll of the answers up to his were ironic and he didn't get it. Reminds me of someone I used to know, my secret friend, mini me!
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this is a bogus political propaganda line.  It means that conservatives, who don't usually give a hoot about anyone but themselves, and have voted against every measure designed to help the less fortunate or disenfranchised, wanted to get more votes by saying they had compassion.  Don't fall for that one
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"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security"\n- ben franklin\n\nguess.
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Benjamin Franklin:\n\n"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\nIt's one of my all-time favorite quotes!\n\n.
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Can apples be turned into apple juice?  Nixon did not encourage a war in a country that had made no viable, recent threat against the US.  Shooting a man in the face and not coming public about it in a timely manner?  Lying about "civil unions?"  Losing the first presidential election of his term and still managing to make himself president?  Abstinence as a solution for a deadly disease in the 21st century?  A tax break that gives only $3 to those who make like less than $20,000?  \n\nMy favorite quote, just cause I want to put it in here, is "The White House and Fox News should just merge."
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Youre Absolutely Correct\n\nYoung People Today ARE VERY IGNORANT In Respect To Politics\n(Among Other Things)\n\nScarey Thought-Makes Me FEAR For The FUTURE Of Our Country
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Al Franken may have quoted Benjamin Franklin. It's a good quote and makes a very good point. Unfortunately, the key word here is "deserve."\n\nWe're constitutionally obligated to provide safety even to those lunk-heads who would try to usurp our rights out of their own fear.\n\nAlso, "liberty" is an unalienable right and can't be "deserved."\n\nIt's a bombastic quote that can't be put into practical use.
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Should be..but even if we had adopted a new government...if people in the position will stay the way they used to, probably we'll remain the same...We are yearning for better. What president and all the government officials are promising to us, never happened in reality. I don't want to expect too much from this country. Everything should be in a new form by now but seeing it with my own eyes, as much as possible I want to be realistic--and this is the reality.
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Excellent quote to use.  And yes, I agree with it.  As the saying goes, "The apple rots from within."
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No but that is a fantastic quote.\n\nFound it!  Thomas Dewar
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Very good quotes,  If you think those are scary try reading the Declearation of independence.  \n"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government"\n\nWhat does you question have to do with Bush suporters?