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Post edited 2:07 pm – July 6, 2009 by Worshipmentor

I have collected these recently and keep them on my phone so they can be recalled when appropriate:

“if you speak the truth you don't have to remember anything”-Mark Twain

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle”-Winston Churchill

“You can not help the poor by destroying the rich. You can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. you can not bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You can not lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. you can not further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You can not build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You can not help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves”-Abraham Lincoln

“a government that does not trust it's law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust”-James Madison

“Those who would sacrifice liberty in the name of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”-Benjamin Franklin

“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government”-Thomas Jefferson

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay it's own debt as it goes. A principle which if acted upon would save one-half of the wars of the world”-Thomas Jefferson

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money”-Margaret Thatcher

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have”-Thomas Jefferson

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberty than standing armies. if the American poeple ever allow private banks to control issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their CHILDREN wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered”-Thomas Jefferson

“Time is what we want most and use worst”-William Penn

“But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it”-Jesus Christ-Luke 7:35 NLT