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 OTHER STATEMENTS
- "We don't have a trillion-dollor-debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar-debt because we spend too much."
Ronald Reagan
- "Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and deadly as a hit man."
Ronald Reagan
- "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
from a bumper sticker
- "Love doesn't make the world go around - photosynthesis does."
John Rosengren - Biology Teacher
Note: Photosynthesis is the chemical process whereby green plants use sunlight with the catalyst, chlorophyll, to combine water and carbon dioxide to form sugar and oxygen. Without carbon dioxide there would be no life as we know it.
My thanks to Anthony Esposito for providing the Statements #5, #6, #7, & #8 by Thomas Jefferson.
- "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principal which if acted on would save one half the wars of the world."
Thomas Jefferson
- "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson
- "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson
- "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
Thomas Jefferson
- "Peace through Strength."
Ronald Reagan
- "Taxes are not a punishment, nor are they an instrument of class warfare. They are, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously put it, the price we pay for a civilized society. And that price needs to go up for everybody, not just for millionaires."
From Bloomberg Businessweek, Sept 26 to Oct 2, 2011, page 15
- "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country . . . One is by the sword. The other is by debt."
John Adams
- "The 'Golden Rule' is that those who have the gold make the rules about who gets the gold."
Charles Osgood
- The Daily Reckoning Presents The Difference Between OWC and Anti-Vietnam Protests
Click here for article
- "I have done more for the security of Israel than anyone else."
Barack Hussein Obama
quoted by Glen Beck 12/2/11
- "The longest journey begins with the first step."
Confucius
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