Friday, November 23, 2007
The happiness of society is the end of government
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow, that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
John Adams
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Friday, October 30, 2009
We tax everything that moves and doesn’t move - Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State under Barack Obama, bemoaning that Pakistan isn’t taxing everything that moves.
“The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan.”
-- Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, 10/30/09, quoted in Daily Times of Pakistan
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Freddy the Freeloader
"I get asked all the time; Where did you get the idea for Freddie the Freeloader, and who is Freddie really?
Well, I guess you might say that Freddie the Freeloader is a little bit of you, and a little bit of me, a little bit of all of us, you know.
He’s found out what love means. He knows the value of time. He knows that time is a glutton. We say we don’t have time to do this or do that. There’s plenty of time. The trick is to apply it. The greatest disease in the world today is procrastination.
And Freddie knows about all these things. And so do you.
He doesn’t ask anybody to provide for him, because it would be taken away from you. He doesn’t ask for equal rights if it’s going to give up some of yours.
And he knows one thing ... that patriotism is more powerful than guns.
He’s nice to everybody because he was taught that man is made in God’s image. He’s never met God in person and the next fella just might be him.
I would say that Freddie is a little bit of all of us.”
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Happiness isn’t something you experience …
A witty, and true, observation on happiness by Oscar Levant, ‘the world’s oldest child prodigy’
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
—Oscar Levant
Monday, November 03, 2008
“You don’t tell a communist stand up—a communist tell you to sit down.”
"You don’t tell a communist stand up—a communist tell you to sit down.”
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I had no idea of the character
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
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Friday, November 23, 2007
People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity
People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
All I need to make a comedy is …
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin
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Monday, November 03, 2008
It is Obama’s intention to reduce our national wealth
Rush Limbaugh on Barack Obama’s plan to bankrupt coal companies, spread the wealth around, etc.
"It is Obama’s intention to reduce our national wealth, folks; make no mistake here. This is why he’s so wildly popular in the Third World, because he brings the mentality of socialism to this race.”
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Socialism only works in two places
A very true observation on Socialism, by the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan
Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.
-Ronald Reagan
MORE...Friday, November 23, 2007
First Thanksgiving Day proclamation
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me ‘to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.’
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the tranquility [sic], union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted—for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow …
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
I never drink anything stronger than …
"I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.”
-- W. C. Fields
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey …
From Thomas Paine, a very true observation about the mindset of the self-proclaimed ‘intelligensia’
Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
- Thomas Paine
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Getting Started with ExpressionEngine
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