Continuing my theme from yesterday, here’s another collection of quotes from my old website. Don’t worry that they might be out of date, most of them were originally said hundreds of years ago. Kinda cool it works that way, huh?

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man encouraging class hatred.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away
man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could
and should do for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

“This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead in the future.”
- Adolf Hitler 1938

“When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn’t deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don’t own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment …and I can only be quiet.”
- Lyle Myhr

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

“We 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 (1903)

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

“From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, then followed always by a dictatorship.

“The average age of the worlds’ greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
– Alexander Fraser Tytler

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.”
- Frederick Douglass

“The right to be left alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people.”
- Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)

“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.”
- Alexis de Tocquevile