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Post by Daffy on Oct 17, 2008 14:26:32 GMT
If you mess up raising your children, I don't think what ever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis
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Post by newyorker on Oct 17, 2008 16:36:30 GMT
Quotation from Groucho:
Maybe appropriate for Mike V.
Go, and never darken my towel again.
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Post by Bea on Oct 18, 2008 15:31:30 GMT
The word 'Statesman',has appeared in a recent letter circulated to various States members and the local media.
Just found this quotation which though was appropriate.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree;If you agree with him he is a Statesman
Dave Lloyd George -British Prime Minister 1933
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Post by revolution on Oct 18, 2008 19:47:09 GMT
Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money
ROBIN WILLIAMS
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Post by ladyjane on Oct 18, 2008 21:11:07 GMT
The important thing is, Not what they think of me But
What I think of them.
Queen Victoria
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Post by ladyjane on Oct 18, 2008 21:13:05 GMT
But there is great suffering in life = and there are defeats - no one can avoid them. But is is better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what your fighting for.
Anon
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Post by Bea on Oct 31, 2008 0:26:45 GMT
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist
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Post by Bea on Oct 31, 2008 0:27:40 GMT
"The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave."
-- Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist 1867 Source: No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority. (1870)
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Post by Bea on Nov 22, 2008 17:37:44 GMT
Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations:
Andrew Jackson, farewell address, 04 March 1837
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Post by Bea on Dec 10, 2008 19:24:46 GMT
The people's right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state." -- Edmond Cahn : The Predicament of Democratic Man, 1961
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