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[userque]

“What we don’t bring into light, and don’t acknowledge to ourselves, grows in the dark.”
― Dragos Bratasanu

 

[nnuut]

He who laughs last laughs longest.

This proverb originated in Tudor England but, for once, wasn't coined by Shakespeare. It is found in print in the play Christmas Prince, which was first performed, at Cambridge, around 1608:

Laugh on laugh on my freind
Hee laugheth best that laugheth to the end


https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/he-who-laughs-last-laughs-longest.html

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[userque]

I hope to outlive my enemies.

--William Sanderson

 

[RazorCat]

Sorry for the sideways picture. Guess I need to duct tape one corner. :smile:

 

[userque]

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[userque]

(IMAGE) "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
--Albert Einstein

 

[userque]

If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
--Samuel Adams

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
--John Adams

 

[konakathy]

“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.” - Donald Trump


well at least he’s showing some self awareness.

 

[userque]

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments."


--Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence

 

[nnuut]

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[ravensfan]

Here are two of my favorites from George S. Patton

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth." "Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians."

 

[James48843]

[FONT=&quot]"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing,
and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
-Will Rogers[/FONT]

 

[TSP-roulette]

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye who cheer when soldier lads march by,
sneak home and pray you’ll never know the hell where youth and laughter go.”

― Siegfried Sassoon.[FONT=Merriweather, Georgia, serif]
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[userque]

Just wanted to add that my recent posts did not refer to any particular politicians or political parties.

While such posts have been recently made, and even 'liked' by a so-called "moderator." I will continue to respect this site's "recent" censorship and prohibition and selective enforcement of political debate--even while I disagree with such "recent" adult censorship.

 

[userque]

"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of this country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man….The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people."

--Samuel Adams

 

[Stoplight]

"If you live in the land of the cannibals, you better understand what they eat."

- Unknown ; heard today on CNBC's Squawk Alley ; by Lawrence Haverty, on Facebook debacle

Seems appropriate in many other areas of "life", too :smile:


Stoplight...

 

[Cactus]

The two most common in my organization are:

1) No good deed shall go unpunished.

2) We have done so much with so little for so long that now we are expected to do everything with nothing in no time at all.

 

[userque]

Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

--James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, 1877

 

[userque]

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

--Patrick Henry

 

[nnuut]

Most words of wisdom are not what they seem.

-ME!