"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, 1759
(that one is for politic chic)
"There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or niether."
-Ramsey Clark
(I don't even know if this guy believes that but it's a good quote anyway)
"I hold it to be the inalianable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
-Robert Frost, 1935
"I place economy among the first and important virtues, and the public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual dept. We must make our choice between economy and libery, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the govenment from wasting the labours of the people under the pretense of caring for them, ther will yet be happy.
-Thomas Jefferson
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it."
-Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
I liked these quotes and decided to put them up there for all to see. I sometimes feel that our greatest strengths as a country is becoming intertwined with a terrible pride that will drag us down more surely than other threat to the nation. Observing recent events and pondering on them all gives me a sad feeling and the nonchalance of the common man for things of eternal import is the root of it all. I have the same feeling reading the news as I do when I read the book of Ether or the the last parts of Alma or the book of Mormon in the Book of Mormon. One more quote that was quite prophetic:
"If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should all want bread."
Thomas Jefferson
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- Just like to chill. Bald guy who speaks spanish. Graduated... Journalism-New Media and Latin American Studies. Now going to law school.
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6 comments:
Wow that's pretty deep. Seems like somebody is studying the economy. Any good quotes about the stimulus package?
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting- Mark Twain.
I have seen the one by Franklin before, but it was phrased a little differently. Eh, things might be hard, and may get worse, but I think there is still reason to plant cherry trees.That's paraphrased from Willford Woodruff.
Has everyone lost their mind or been downing the whiskey? I feel like I'm drowning in feel good inspiration and I don't like it... not one bit.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
he who goes to sleep with itchy bum wakes up with stinky finger... ?
So you see how one can't facebook AND blog at the same time. It is impossible.
Anyone who says I run too much does not run enough.
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