Best Quote

1SHOT1KILL said:
"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson
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one of my favs

a few i like that talks about democracy and the people that vote

---On Sept. 18, 1787, after Benjamin Franklin signed the Constitution in Philadelphia, a woman reportedly asked him: “Well, doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” To which Franklin replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” And regarding maintaining that republic, Franklin is reported at another time to have said, “when the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

At about that same time, in 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinburgh) is reported to have said this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian Republic” some 2,000 years prior.

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”


down with welfare!
 
"I want you to have this. My mother gave this to me before she died. It was her lucky machete."- Chanchito--"Nacho Libre"
 
Don't lead me into temptation. I know a shortcut.
A fair fight is one that *I* win.
I spent most of my money on whiskey and loose women. The rest I just wasted.
I don't need anger management. I just need people to STOP PISSING ME OFF!!!
The only earth that the meek will ever inherit is the dirt shoveled over their dead bodies by the strong.
 
My grandfather was the strong silent type. He worked two jobs and never said much. What I do remember him saying was:

"Be careful of the words you say,
Keep them short and sweet.
You never know, from day to day,
Which ones you'll have to eat."

Not his words but a lesson instilled just the same.

My other favorite is from Mark Twain and as simple as cam be:

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. "
 
"Many famous quotes are either misquoted or said by someone else."

Alexander Hamilton
 
Secretary: How do you write women so well?

Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

Jack Nicholson-As Good As It Gets.
 
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
Winston Churchill
 
Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
 
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