Thread: Quote of the Day

"Today’s so-called ‘conservatives’ don’t even know what the word means. They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. It’s not a conservative issue at all."

— Barry Goldwater

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William E. Gladstone

Originally Posted by misskit

"Today’s so-called ‘conservatives’ don’t even know what the word means. They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. It’s not a conservative issue at all."

— Barry Goldwater

Senator Goldwater was from that truer old-school American "conservative".
A defined conservative - today known as Libertarian.

Back then, I believe there wasn't such invented and dogmatic ideological division regarding political identities and calling.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Barry Goldwater

An apolitcal quote:

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Baruch Spinoza

"Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it...gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

-- Milton Friedman

"The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink."

-- Che Guevara

^

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

-- Confucius

Sep 4th 2015 5:27PM: Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, "This is a close call, but after a lengthy review, I will vote to disapprove the deal," Cardin wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post. "After 10 to 15 years, it would leave Iran with the option to produce enough enriched fuel for a nuclear weapon in a short time"

^ Obama has already secured enough congressional votes to pass the treaty. What you're reading about, apparently, is that the Repturds have since said they will continue argument. Another great waste of their fucking salaries.

Originally Posted by bowie

Sep 4th 2015 5:27PM: Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, "This is a close call, but after a lengthy review, I will vote to disapprove the deal," Cardin wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post. "After 10 to 15 years, it would leave Iran with the option to produce enough enriched fuel for a nuclear weapon in a short time"

Oh look, it's gone from ten years to "ten to fifteen years".

And I bet the silly old fart STILL hasn't read the fucking thing.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
- John Glenn

First, central banks don't spend $150 billion every three weeks, or about $200 billion a month, to support a currency that is close to appropriately valued.

-- Christopher Balding on the coming Chinese devaluation

“Being a Democrat in the Age of Obama requires you to believe cops kill black kids on purpose but radical Islamists kill Jews by accident.” -- Joel Pollak

A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

Clinton Rossiter

Trump was born with hundreds of millions of dollars.

He wants to make life very hard on people born with less than nothing.

He's evil.

- God

"Actually we can't do what we like with [Britain]. We inherited it from our parents and grandparents and we have a duty to hand it on to our children and grandchildren, preferably improved and certainly undamaged. It is one of the heaviest responsibilities we will ever have. We cannot just give it away to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves.

Every one of the posturing notables simpering 'refugees welcome' should be asked if he or she will take a refugee family into his or her home for an indefinite period, and pay for their food, medical treatment and education.

If so, they mean it. If not, they are merely demanding that others pay and make room so that they can experience a self-righteous glow."

-- Peter Hitchens

“If you had somebody as president who wanted to take America down, who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world and reduce our capacity to influence events, turn our back on our allies and encourage our adversaries, it would look exactly like what Barack Obama’s doing.” -- Dick Cheney

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

“If you had somebody as president who wanted to take America down, who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world and reduce our capacity to influence events, turn our back on our allies and encourage our adversaries, it would look exactly like what Barack Obama’s doing.” -- Dick Cheney

"Dick Cheney is a lying, two-faced c u n t".

- Harry

"A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah." -- Ronald Maximus

^ I'm not bad lookin' then, EH?

Originally Posted by wjblaney

^ I'm not bad lookin' then, EH?

Still lettin' your freak flag fly?

"When OJ killed two people...I don't remember Clinton proclaiming...if I had a son his name would be Ronald Goldman." -- Anon