Your favorite quotes (Congress, lobbyists, lobby, dollars)

[T0103E]

I thought I'd let people to take a break from arguing and post a few of their favorite quotes. I'll just go with three to start...

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

- Samuel Adams

One of my favorites showing how far the U.S. has strayed from the spirit that it was founded upon.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."

- Frederick Douglass

A former slave taking what he'd learned and applying it to all of mankind.

"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."

- Lysander Spooner

A quote against the idea that "we are the government".

[saltine]

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." TJ

[shooting4life]

Embrace the uncertainty of Liberty - shooting4life

Just one from someone else for now

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

[whogo]

I think I'll have another beer.

[r small]

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."--H. L. Mencken.

[P47P47]

"A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, pretty soon you're talking real money."

- Sen. Everett Dirksen (R, Ill.)

[BigHouse9]

"Don't do anything that would embarrass you, the team or your family" - Larry Gelwix

[rbohm]

we choose to go to the moon, we choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard

-JFK president

[Floorist]

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”




Stephen King

[Goodnight]

On lobbyists – "If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money and then vote against them you've got no business being up here."

Jesse Unruh - California Congressman