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To: BarnacleCenturion; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; ...
Re: "...look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own."

Gadzooks! If the Drive-By Media would just report what The Obamanation says... we wouldn't need an election campaign.

169 posted on 07/14/2012 6:01:51 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2
RE: "...look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own."

Hey, I've supported Sweeny's Pub for years, and often I didn't get there on my own. Marge drove me.

191 posted on 07/14/2012 7:00:11 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Bender2

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.

——Quote often attributed to Alexander Tyler. But it’s doubtful, probably a combination of quotes. Whatever bunch said it, they are all brilliant.


317 posted on 07/16/2012 1:05:11 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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