Thread: Cicero, 42 B.C. and other Quotes
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04-22-2012, 11:37 PM
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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04-22-2012, 11:47 PM
From Lord Acton:
- “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
- "Great men are almost always bad men."
- “There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”
- “The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”
- "Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
- "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."
- "There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."
--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
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04-22-2012, 11:55 PM
"We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so." - Vin Suprynowicz, cited by Claire Wolfe in a speech before the Arizona Libertarian Party Convention, April 19, 1997
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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04-24-2012, 03:59 AM
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." - Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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04-24-2012, 04:10 AM
The more you read these quotes the more you realize the fathers of this country and wise men of the past knew we are doomed by our own behaviors and desires, it seems they only hoped for a brief interlude, I hope they enjoyed it.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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09-28-2012, 02:34 PM
Just found this thread. Good one Rock.
I'll up your ante on C.S. Lewis quotes
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. LewisGun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound - Unknown
The problem is Empty People, Not Loaded Guns - Linda Schrock Taylor
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09-28-2012, 02:50 PM
CRANMER’S LAW: “No matter how decent, intelligent or thoughtful the reasoning of a conservative may be, as an argument with a liberal is advanced, the probability of being accused of ‘bigotry’, ‘hatred’ or ‘intolerance’ approaches 1 (100%).”
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
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09-28-2012, 03:03 PM
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
Stephan DouglasNever argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
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09-28-2012, 03:14 PM
In order to clarify the above quote I present this one:
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
Anne CoulterNever argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
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09-28-2012, 06:00 PM
However, those who whine about their prediction that some change in policy will prevent them from "choosing my own doctor" often have chosen their doctors for reasons no more relevant than looks or eloquence.
Years ago, Mobil did a survey and discovered that regardless of how well educated about gasoline the public is (and there are indeed sound reasons for quality differences) they still choose a station for convenience and price before considering brand.While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
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