Libertarian quotes...

[A Desert Rose]

I cede your point. Expecting consistency is certainly an error in this case. It's been so many years since I employed thought patterns of this nature that I have a great deal of trouble grasping, much less achieving that degree or irrationality.

This is why I will never get in a battle of wits with you, UncleBill.

;-)

 

[Dillinger]

How about some quotes from some of the most influential Libertarians in world history?

Let's start with this guy:

The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian
doctrine. -- George Washington

 

[Dillinger]

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -- Thomas Jefferson

 

[Dillinger]

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church,
by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish
church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I
know of. My own mind is my own church.

-- Thomas Paine

 

[The Heretic]

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church,
by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish
church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I
know of. My own mind is my own church.

-- Thomas Paine

I like this T.P. quote - especially when people talk about "patriotism":

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." -- Thomas Paine

 

[Unclebill]

A Couple More Quotations:

From Thomas Jefferson’s Bible:
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear....Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it end in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue on the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others which it will procure for you.”
Thomas Jefferson

 

[Harbinger]

One more teeny little highjack, just to bump the thread

Ok easiest stuff first.

Like making claims you can't back up?

Harbinger i was not bringing you personally into this at all.

Hey, you quoted me. And implied very strongly that my post wasn't deep and authoritative, which hurt my feelings and made me lash out like a little girl. Sorry.

I was pointing out to that opinion nazi that I merely stated my opinion no more or less than you did and you were not criticized at all. Way to follow shit though big guy.

Todd just made the point rather sarcastically that your post about the quotes being a "load of crap" was rather lacking in substance. You chose to take it personally, still not give any specific reasons, and then call him a dipshit.

Your whole "thought out" post which was really nothing more than a bunch of BS of why you know so much more than i do was entertaining and sad at the same time.

I was reminding you that you never said anything of substance. Calling something a load of crap, even though it's very clever, doesn't give us much to work with.

Way to be "dignified."

I have no desire to appear dignified, as everyone here can tell you, but I'm sorry if my Kabuki outfit fooled you. I get that a lot.

And your bringing my friend into this that has nothing to do with any of it, way to be grown up dude.

Oh btw.. I was actually going to break down point by point why i disagreed with the quotes when i had more time. Not that anyone asked or did anything but jump up my ass. Still thinking of doing it but not sure i feel like taking the time... coming up with a well thought out response to explain myself to you assholes is not striking me as worth the time. It's cool though, in time we'll see what's what.

I think if you had responded to Todd's or my comments with a point by point, instead of just going all bitchy and calling people dipshits, buttfucks, and assholes in a not very dignified or grown up manner you might have gotten a better reaction. As you can see, you didn't score very high. But it was still fun for a little while.

 

[Harbinger]

Just to get things back on track

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
-- Thomas Jefferson

 

[Unclebill]

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamoring to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself."
H.L. Mencken

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

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws."
Ayn Rand

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
C.S. Lewis

 

[Lost Cause]

The ultimate Libertarian quote...

"The thing that separates the American from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!" -George Washington

www.lp.org

www.cato.org

http://memory.loc.gov/const/fed/fedpapers.html

 

[Lost Cause]

One more..

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." * Thomas Jefferson