Thread: Quotes for our time.

"The budget should be balenced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered. And assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt."

-- Cicero

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

-- Abraham Lincoln

No man is above the law and no man is below it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within fine years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible goverment sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsiblity to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine

When we are planning for prosperty, we ought to remember that vitrue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

-- Albert Einstein

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.....Endmund Burke

"Why was the border guard so thin? Did Romans not notice...that their way of life was changing forever?"

-- Thomas Cahill, 1995

"No society has a boundless capacity to accept newcomers, especially when many are poor and unskilled."

-- Robert Samuelson, economist and Newsweek columnist, 2005

"Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States."

-- Mexican president Porfirio Diaz, 1910

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

americangirl:

You quoted [the late, great] Frank Zappa
The quote is serious (and good). But I'm so surprised to see a Frank Z quote by anyone, anywhere on here! Cool - Too darn funny! RFLMAO

Here's some lyrics from a Frank Zappa song which has always stuck with me - I think it says a lot about DC, politicians, our corrupt government
( in a lighter, but similar vein as the quote above):

You say yer life's a bum deal, 'n yer up against the wall...
Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all

'Cause what they do in Washington
They just takes care of NUMBER ONE

An' NUMBER ONE ain't YOU!
You ain't even NUMBER TWO

The rhymes and phrases work so very well to convey the intended meaning! (IMHO)