Monday, March 5, 2012

Quote of the Day

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

These are some of the best quotes you'll ever read:
1. "a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald Ford, August 12, 1974.
2. “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money."-- Margaret Thatcher, to Parliament on February 22, 1990
3. “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 (1903)
4. “In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.” – Voltaire: “Money” (1770)
5. "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw: Everybody's Political What's What (1944) Ch. 30