GREAT QUOTES / 8

Well I'm almost done for this week . I think I might be caught up. I've saved the lighter stuff for last. Here is another group of quotes from some who you will recognize and some you won't. Some are immediatly applicable to the situations at hand and some you'll have to think about. Anyway............Enjoy.......................PEACE...................Scott

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When we butchered your son, boys
When we butchered your son
Have a stick of our gum, boys
Have a stick of our bubble-gum
We own half the world, oh say can you see
The name for our profits is democracy
So, like it or not, you will have to be free
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World ­
Phil Ochs


Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. -Thomas Jefferson


"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." - Erma Bombeck


"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. " - Sam Levenson


I drink to make other people interesting - George Jean Nathan


"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver


Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. - Robert Orben


"Righteousness, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodlesinhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque."-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
[Jean Paul Sartre, born June 21, 1905]


If it's not life threatening, I'm not interested -- Firesign Theatre


"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright


"An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisaninformation and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidlyobese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined toput up a fight -- ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracycan die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too."--BillMoyers


RONALD REAGAN, 1988 - Facts are stupid things (misquoting John Adams who said they were stubborn things)


They said we were lost, mad and immoral, and interfered with the plans of the management. and today, millions and millions, shut alive In the coffins of circumstance, Beat on the buried lids, Huddle in the cellars of ruins, and quarrel Over their own fragmented flesh.
— Kenneth Rexroth,


There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams


My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast. - Miguel de Unamuno


If I'd known I was gonna live this long I'd have taken better care of myself. - Eubie Blake at age 100