And who said it?
2007-03-15 08:31:37 · 19 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
--Theodore Roosevelt
2007-03-15 08:35:42 · answer #1 · answered by BDZot 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is # 1, but couldn't resist a few others. One of my favorite hobbies, GREAT question!!! Hope I get some new ones!
1. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
2. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
3. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
4. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
2007-03-15 15:47:52 · answer #2 · answered by Whootziedude 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I still like John Kennedy's "Ask not what your government
can do for you, ask what you can do for your nation" or
something similar to that. The problem is, this isn't
happening. Too many citizens have their hand out to
what government can do for them. That's why this country
is in debt big time. So, the quote was great, but nobody
seems to care nor follow it's ad vice.
2007-03-15 15:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free. President Ronald Reagan
2007-03-15 17:01:59 · answer #4 · answered by HAGAR!!! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed frequently, and for the same reason."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."
2007-03-15 15:37:04 · answer #5 · answered by deftlychillin 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"At the end of the day, this city will once again be a chocolate city" - paraphrased from New Orlean's mayor Ray Nagin.
2007-03-15 15:40:24 · answer #6 · answered by Pfo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Let cut funding to the troops and pull out of Iraq"
- Libs
Lol gives me a good laugh everytime.
2007-03-15 15:51:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
To sin by silence when one should protest makes cowards out of men.
Abraham Lincoln
2007-03-15 15:50:45 · answer #8 · answered by Charlie S 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.
Ronald Reagan
2007-03-15 15:46:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
"democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
W. Churchill.
2007-03-15 15:46:05 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. O 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋