Finest quote thread

[kentuck]

21. Here are a couple:

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln, 1861

""The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." FDR

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)

"The cause of all wars, riots and injustices is the existence of property."
(St. Augustine)

"When given the choice between a Republican, and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, the voters will choose the Republican every time." Harry Truman

"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." Arundhati Roy