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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 11:42 PM
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*Everything that is impossible remains to be accomplished ---Jules Verne

*(We oppose bombings, period. Notice the hypocrisy:) When Bush bombs Baghdad and kills thousands of Iraqis, that's good bombing. But when Iraqis or others bomb Baghdad killing our people, that's called terrorism.---q2112.com

*Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.--- John Stuart Mill

*Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.---Bertrand Russell

*Junk is something you keep for years then throw away two weeks before you need it.

*"They would not listen, they're not listening still...perhaps they never will"-- Don McLean

*"George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld care about the troops in the same way that Tyson Foods cares about chickens."-- Retired Army master sergeant Stan Goff whose son was recently deployed to Iraq.

*Faith: (noun): That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

*Bureaucrat:A person who cuts red tape sideways...J. McCabe

*A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls...George W. Bush

*To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail... Abraham Maslow

*In politics, stupidity is not a handicap...Napoleon

*What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.... Henry Becque


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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 12:41 AM
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"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." -Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." -Albert Einstein

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it." -Clarence Darrow

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." -George Washington

"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." -Thomas Paine

"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional, as to how they perceive the Veterans of other wars, were treated, and appreciated, by their Nation." -George Washington

"I hate quotations."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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