QUOTES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
By Luke Speer
Australia
Feb. 24, 2001

International Quotes:

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
~ ~ DALI LAMA [mantra]

People get the history they deserve.
~ ~ GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE,
Lecture to army cadets, St Cyr, 1920

A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
~ ~ VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
~ ~ BERNARD BERENSON 1865 - 1959
Polish/American art critic

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
~ ~ LEONARDO DA VINCI

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
~ ~ HONORE DE BALZAC

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.
~ ~ WlNSTON CHURCHILL (1903)

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
~ ~ GOETHE

Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~ ~ NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (1960)

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
~ ~ HILAIRE BELLOC (1870-1953)
English writer, poet "A Conversation with an Angel."

"The unarmed man is not just defenseless -- he is also contemptible."
~ ~ MACHIAVELLI

US Quotes:

"Giving money and power to Governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
~ ~ P.J. O'ROURKE

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three need supervision.
~ ~ DICK ARMEY

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
~ ~ GEORGE WASHINGTON

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
~ ~ HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956)

Now as through this world I ramble,
I see lots of funny men,
Some rob you with a six-gun,
Some with a fountain pen.
~ ~ WOODIE GUTHRIE

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
~~ Criswell Freeman
From a book called "Cowboy Wisdom" circa 1997

There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer and the poor get it in the winter.
~ ~ BAT MASTERSON

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walk."
~ ~ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, 318 (Foley, Ed., reissued 1967)

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