Your favorite quote/passage

[Lulletje Rozewater]

Desire is half of life
Indifference is half of death

[Rudy]

"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers... The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity... By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. The financing of all public enterprises, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity."

"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed."

Abraham Lincoln

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce... and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate."

President James Garfield

"If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also... It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the userers and the other helps the people."

Thomas Edison, noting that debt based money is unnecessary.

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled governments in the civilized world - no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by ... a vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

President Wilson, having second thoughts about his passage of the Federal Reserve.

"I have unwittingly ruined my government."

http://www.mailstar.net/money-masters.html

[lei.talk]

John Adams and Alexander Hamilton observed
that a man who is dependent for his subsistence
on the arbitrary will of another man

is not economically free
and so should not be admitted to citizenship

because he cannot use the political liberty
which belongs to that status.

- Mortimer Adler

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[Rudy]

I Pledge Allegiance to the Flags
Of the United States and Israel
And to the Zionists for which we wage War
Two Nations Indivisible.
And with Liberty, Justice and Massive Wealth,
For Gods Chosenites Only!

-McGanhan Skjellyfetti

[Sally]

There is a willow grows aslant the brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come.
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples.
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang an envious sliver broke.
When down the weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.

~ William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

[Finsterer Streiter]

"I have big lungs!" by Inese

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...0766#post30766

I had to spit my morning coffee out after reading the unintensional ambiguity. Soz Inese but the remark made my day.

...big lungs...they´re everywhere!

[lei.talk]

thanks to the man from kempen

They had a choice, all of them.

They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or President Truman.
Decent men who believed in a day's work for a day's pay.

Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists
and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late.

Don't tell me they didn't have a choice.

Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell,
all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth talkers...

and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say.

Walter Joseph Kovacs

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[Cato]

Robert E. Howard:

"Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and in the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars -- Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet."

An abbreviated version, narrated by Mako from the opening of the first Conan film:

"Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg

[Germanicus]

First rule of Karate for self defence, second rule of karate learn rule number one.

Karate Kid, the movie, Mr Miagi.

[Rudy]

"Experience has shown that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." -Thomas Jefferson
http://newsfromthewest.blogspot.com/...m-history.html