Quote of the Day Thread

[NHSparky]

I figured I would start this one off--feel free to add or steal as you see fit.

"...[W]hen you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors--when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you--when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice--you may know that your society is doomed."  --Atlas Shrugged

[Servonaut]

One of my favorites

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.
And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."

P. J. O'Rourke

[thundley4]

I just added this one to my sig, and it is more appropriate than ever right now.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

[ReardenSteel]

I figured I would start this one off--feel free to add or steal as you see fit.

"...[W]hen you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors--when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you--when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice--you may know that your society is doomed."  --Atlas Shrugged

I'm getting a little tired of that one actually.   

Edit to add...

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

[NHSparky]

I think it's entirely apropriate, given the fact GM is declaring bankruptcy in about 15 minutes and will give something like 60 percent of the company to the government.

[JohnnyReb]

I think it's entirely apropriate, given the fact GM is declaring bankruptcy in about 15 minutes and will give something like 60 percent of the company to the government.

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By DAN STRUMPF and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON, AP Auto Writers Dan Strumpf And Kimberly S. Johnson, Ap Auto Writers – 4 mins ago

The plan is for the federal government to take a 60 percent ownership stake in the new GM. The Canadian government would take 12.5 percent, with the United Auto Workers getting a 17.5 percent share and unsecured bondholders receiving 10 percent. Existing GM shareholders are expected to be wiped out.

They've nationalized capital.
They've nationalized the largest heavy industry.
They're working on nationalizing healthcare.
Next will be agriculture (short hop).........and wa-la, it's done, communist utopia.

[ReardenSteel]

I think it's entirely apropriate, given the fact GM is declaring bankruptcy in about 15 minutes and will give something like 60 percent of the company to the government.

It is entirely apropriate for sure. I only said what I did because that quote has been my sig line for over a year, LOL.

[Hawkgirl]

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.  ~Plato

[Baruch Menachem]

Well, as the saying goes, what is good for GM is good for the country.

[Sam Adams]

"Conservatism is the politics of reality."
                 ---William F. Buckley, Jr.

[Odin's Hand]

The sig for my encounter today with a "live one".