More Quotes To Ponder

Read and consider (via Patriot Post) what some really wise people had to say...

...on the philosophical effects of what Obama and the Democrats are now doing to America:

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
-- Thomas Jefferson --

"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."
-- Ayn Rand --

"[G]overnment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
-- Thomas Paine --

...on what a better way might be:

"An opportunity society awaits us. We need only believe in ourselves and give men and women of faith, courage, and vision the freedom to build it. Let others run down America and seek to punish success. Let them call you greedy for not wanting government to take more and more of your earnings. Let them defend their tombstone society of wage and price guidelines, mandatory quotas, tax increases, planned shortages*, and shared sacrifices. We want no part of that mess, thank you very much. We will encourage all Americans—men and women, young and old, individuals of every race, creed, and color—to succeed and be healthy, happy, and whole. This is our goal. We see America not falling behind, but moving ahead; our citizens not fearful and divided, but confident and united by shared values of faith, family, work, neighborhood, peace and freedom."
-- Ronald Reagan --

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
-- Epictetus --

...on the terrible perspective that the incompetence of Obama's 'diplomacy' could wreak:

"When the terrorists attack again—as Homeland Security has repeatedly warned us they will—how many survivors will be consoled because the Supreme Court and the State Department looked out for the 'rights' of terrorists before the rights of their dead loved ones?"
-- Cal Thomas --

Think about it.

There's my two cents.