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Old 08/01/11, 08:58 PM
 
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Some old quoites from our forefathers
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. – John Adams (1814)
Read the rest here: http://www.americanrevival.org/quotes/forefathers.htm
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Old 08/02/11, 02:13 PM
 
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
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Old 08/02/11, 07:20 PM
 
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"Farming is easy when a pencil is your plow, and your desk sits a thousand miles from the cornfield."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Old 08/02/11, 07:21 PM
 
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"If you want a friend in this city (Wash DC), get a dog."
Harry S. Truman
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Old 08/02/11, 09:00 PM
 
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.— Thomas Jefferson
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You are young and strong and I am old and weak. Stack up that firewood- My Uncle Walter
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See my sig (G. Washington, Farewell Address, 1792)
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Old 08/03/11, 08:09 PM
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Seriously....every member of Congress and the Executive branch ought to read every one of those quotes every day they are in office.

That would be time well spent.
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