Thursday, November 20, 2008

Favorite Quotes

"It is not enough that I should succeed. My friends must also fail." -- Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -- Alexis de Tocqueville

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." – Samuel Adams

"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out-right ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here." -- Senator Dianne Feinstein on banning guns.

"We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas." – H.L. Mencken

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