Quote Of The Day

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

W. C. Fields

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Joseph Stalin.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw


They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin


If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)


There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does
not want merely because you think it would be good for him. – Robert Heinlein


Where morality is present, laws are unnecessary. Without morality, laws are unenforceable. – Anonymous


When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P.J. O'Rourke


Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing
the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him
and directing him to carry on various activities. – Robert Nozick, Harvard philosopher


This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized
nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police
more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future! – Adolph Hitler [1935] The Weapons Act of Nazi Germany.

LivingDead wrote:

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized
nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police
more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future! – Adolph Hitler [1935] The Weapons Act of Nazi Germany.

The Quote above hits home with me the most. Alan Rock and his Gun Registry of Canada !! reminds that if we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. Hopefully we dont go down that path. Harper, please repeal the gun registry.

Harper CANT repeal the gun registry. He simply does not have the votes for it. All he can do is waive registration and continue the amnesty as that does not require a vote.

Hey LD...I long quoted that one you listed as being for Benjamin Franklin. Turns out...it wasn't stated by him.

AGEsAces wrote:Hey LD...I long quoted that one you listed as being for Benjamin Franklin. Turns out...it wasn't stated by him.

I got it from his quotes page. strange.
I wasn't there to hear him say it anyhow. But i like it. Thanks.

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
–Oscar Wilde

There comes a time in every mans' life.......and I've had plenty of them.
Charles Dillon(Casey) Stengel

Ahh beer, the cause of, and the solution to, all of mans problems.

LivingDead wrote:

AGEsAces wrote:Hey LD...I long quoted that one you listed as being for Benjamin Franklin. Turns out...it wasn't stated by him.

I got it from his quotes page. strange.
I wasn't there to hear him say it anyhow. But i like it. Thanks.

Yeah, it's long been attributed to him...but I did some research.

Turns out, it was printed in his newspaper once...the actual person who said it is unknown (speculation is it's one of 3 guys)...but because Franklin printed it...it got attributed to him over time.

mmmmmmm....Donuts!!!
- Homer Simpson

mmmmmmm....Beer!!!
- Homer Simpson

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. -Mao Tse Tung

War is politics with blood, politics is war without blood.....Mao Tse Tung

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

"The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life."
--Frank Zappa

Do not look into the abyss for it is looking back at you.....
Neitsche

sh1t happens.

me.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

I don't do drugs...I AM DRUGS......
Salvador Dali

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the
back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks
you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just
stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol'
Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues,
Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

-Jack Burton (big Trouble in little China)

"The liberty of man consists solely in this:
that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them
as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by
any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or
individual." -- Mikhail Bakunin

"There are no laws of nature"


Dean Koshelanyk

The heartland of America is in need of a transplant....
my quote

"A fool and his money are soon popular" - Playboy, circa 1960s