Government is the problem

Not the solution.

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"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas."
– Ron Paul

Head & Heart

From our BrainyQuote feed in the right-hand column


A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

xxxxx- Nelson Mandela

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suspire

From the Word of the Day

suspire \suh-SPAHY-uhr\ ,
–verb (used without object)
1. to sigh.
2. to breathe.
–verb (used with object)
3. to sigh; utter with long, sighing breaths.

"And from that one intake of fire
All creatures still warmly suspire"
- Robert Frost

Eric Hoffer

From today's Brainy Quotes feed:

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

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The name seemed vaguely familiar, so I had to do a Google Search

Eric Hoffer
(July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983)
was an American social writer and philosopher. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.

Though Hoffer did not identify with "liberal intellectuals" and often criticized the radical ideology of many activists of the New Left, it would be wrong to characterize Hoffer's thinking as being "conservative."

Hoffer is referred to as a "longshoreman philosopher".

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Many of his quotes are profound and possess a dagger of truth, especially this one:

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Eric Hoffer in Wikiquote

I'm off to the library to see if they have any of his published works. From what I can see from my cursory search, I agree with many of his viewpoints.

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

- George Orwell

Travelling Far and Fast

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
- Glenn Clark

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Take off your clothes, too, to REALLY travel fast.

Truer Words

Were never spoken. From our Quote of the Day feed:




An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

- Winston Churchill

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This is why...

...ol' Ben was never President



Honesty is the best policy.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Happy Birthday RR !

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

- Ronald Reagan

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I had issues with some of his policies and actions, but I also think President Reagan was a good president, one of the greatest of the 20th century.

He would have been 99.

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I'm With Will

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In the Name of Obedience

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

- C. P. Snow

Quote of the Day Year

Quote of the Day: "Now, let me get this straight.....We are going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also hasn't read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes…all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

~Anonymous

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Christmas Time

"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it."
- Richard Lamm

Hooverism

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

- Herbert Hoover

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Reaching Out

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

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So True

Youth is wasted on the young.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Good Advice

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln


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The Gipper Knew

Mouthy America

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
- Charles Luckman

Hoorah for RAH !

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
- Robert A. Heinlein