these are the quotes I like best..


"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom."

- Thomas Paine


"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

-Thomas Jefferson


"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."

-Mark Twain


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

-Margaret Mead



"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."

-Potter Stewart


"We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back."

-John Le Carre

"Government is not a solution to our problem, government IS the problem." [Ronald Reagan] "

"When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it. "

"Wisdom is bought with tears. I may be considered wise, but I have paid in full for all that I know."

-Urtho

"Though shall keep thy religion to thyself"

-George Carlin

My favorites from off the top

What about:

"If you will give up your personal freedom for personal security, you deserve neither."

The major problem-
one of the major problems, for there are several-
one of the many major problems with the governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

- Douglas Adams

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. -Jesse Helms

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. -Richard Harkness

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -Andrew Tannenbaum

Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats --approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.:D

"He who go to sleep with itchy arse wakes up with stinky fingers."
Confused-cious

"He who laughs last, gathers no moss".

There is so much good in the worse of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it hardly behooves us to talk about the rest of us.

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

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"the great have either or.......never neither nor."

- ??

"Freedom of everything causes there not to be laws."

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Originally posted by is0lized
What about:

"If you will give up your personal freedom for personal security, you deserve neither."

How about:

"If you give up your security or defenses, you will also give up your freedoms."

These are a couple of my favorites.

"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are." -- Talmud

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -- Dave Gardner

My favorite today:

"Here comes the Thnikkaman!"

"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman." (Tony to Manny)~Scarface


:) Anyone know what movie I watched this weekend?

Derrick