Your Favorite Political Quotes

[Oddball]

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[Ringel05]

Your Favorite Political Quotes

Only 6% of scientists are republican.

 

[goldcatt]

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

[eots]

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[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Good reads guys and gals.

BTW thank you all for not giving me crap for my horrid typo in my OP...i fixed it but you can see how bad I screwed it up from reading the quote of me after


On that note here is one of my favorite T.R. quotes (Theodore Roosevelt)

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

It would have been awesome to actually sit through that entire speech.

Great quote! Who gave you crap...?

No one for a change



"The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them." --Joseph Story,

 

[manifold]

Not all liars are politicians, but all politicians are liars.

- manifold

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Not all liars are politicians, but all politicians are liars.

- manifold

I'd pos rep you but I know your trying to get your rep to zero again

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

YouTube - Reagan Bombing Joke

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[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states. If it be purely local, congress cannot constitutionally appropriate money for the object. But, if the benefit be general, it matters not, whether in point of locality it be in one state, or several; whether it be of large, or of small extent." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises." --James Madison

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency." --Alexander Hamilton, Speech at the New York Ratifying Convention, 1788

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." --James Madison

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"Another not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse, and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted..." --Thomas Jefferson

 

[goldcatt]

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Felix Frankfurter

 

[goldcatt]

Another favorite from good old Felix:

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Felix Frankfurter

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition." --Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 1791

What do you people who support all this B.S. our government is doing have to say about this one

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?" --Benjamin Franklin

 

[Kaiser Soze]

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK