new Phrases I like

Posted October 31st, 2008 under ,

 Check’em out here, but you can see them below…

 

  • The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction…. [O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.”
    ~Robert A. Heinlein, 
     ’To Sail Beyond the Sunset’ published in 1987
  • “You cannot help the poor, by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak, by weakening the strong.”
    ~Abraham Lincoln
  • “A Government Big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
    ~Thomas Jefferson 

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2 Responses to “new Phrases I like”

  1. Ben Says:

    Abraham Lincoln never said that.

    It was William J. H. Boetcker.

    It is a completely worthless quote, and the only reason people acknowledge it is cause 90% of the time they think Lincoln said it.

  2. andy Says:

    You are right, Boetcker said that. Thanks for the correction. I don’t agree with you on it being completely worthless, however. The words have the same meaning as if Lincoln said them. The message is in the words, not the spokesman.

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