Quotes from Important People

mrearlygold · January 5, 2012 8:06AM

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington

OldEastside · January 5, 2012 10:05AM

<< “I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
¯ Cormac McCarthy >>

I like that one

I love this thread, One of my favorites is by Teddy Roosevelt and I hope It's
not too far off, but It kinda goes like this "If you don't have to hit him, don't
hit him at all, BUT if you have to hit him, THEN HIT HIM HARD"

Steve

mrearlygold · January 6, 2012 12:18AM

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

tydye · January 6, 2012 2:25AM

<< I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. >>

Bethania McKenstry

trozau · January 6, 2012 3:30AM

"My will is easy to decide, for there is nothing to divide." Joe Hill

sbeverly · January 6, 2012 8:07AM

Who said it first? or... Did Dines get this wrong?

“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.” – Milton Friedman

From page 15 of the 1975 copyright version of the James Dines book "The Invisible Crash"

"Government is the only agency which can take a
useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it
and make it totally worthless."

Ludwig von Mises

sbeverly · January 6, 2012 8:09AM

I swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell

I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell.

Baley · January 13, 2012 4:09AM

Here you go: Top 10 quotes of 2011

Baley · January 13, 2012 4:11AM

everything I need to know, I learned off the first Federal pattern coins:

To Be Esteemed, Be Useful

Mind Your Business.

Fugio

and, of course, see my sig line

Kip · January 13, 2012 4:46AM

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the person who reads it.....I.P. Freely

tnspro · January 13, 2012 4:49AM

“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”

John Wayne

Gemineye · January 13, 2012 5:44AM

Daniel Webster..."

<< He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. >>

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bronco2078 · January 13, 2012 5:52AM

“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”

Wole Soyinka

Mesquite · January 13, 2012 5:58AM

See my sig line.

Ricko. You might be right about that line being in "Treasure" ... but I'm pretty sure it was uttered by Eli Wallach in "The Magnificent Seven".

Kip · January 13, 2012 6:39AM

<< Can anyone guess who said "For the first time in my life, I'm proud to be an American!". >>

The First Bimbo??

Tomohawk · January 13, 2012 8:21AM

"If haste makes waste, what does that mean for fast food menus?"

chocolatebayou · January 13, 2012 9:35AM

"Don't mess with Texas" - Willy Nelson

Corky

GRANDAM · January 13, 2012 12:31PM

"It doesn't count unless you do the deal"

by an unnamed wise old coin collector

GrandAm

Julio · January 13, 2012 7:42PM

"Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. Mark Twain. Take care. jws

mrearlygold · January 13, 2012 10:57PM

Kudlow: "The Federal Reserve has literally hundreds of PhD’s. How is it possible that they missed the worst economic meltdown since the 1930s?" (Which Ron Paul called as early as 2002) Paul: "Because they follow the wrong ideas on economics and they don't follow the business cycles being related to what they are doing at the FED, otherwise, they would have to indict themselves!"

InYHWHWeTrust · January 14, 2012 1:43AM

"You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig." Blondie (Eastwood) in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly / /if you don't know the movie, you have to watch to know the pertinence to this this forum

For the TJ fans, he has some great quotes in the realm of econ/gov't, and like all men, could not perfectly live up to his own standards,... from his own Monticello website...not all of his debt at his death was due to his recklessness.

Thomas Jefferson Debt

ebaytrader · January 14, 2012 4:37AM

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ~ Calvin Coolidge

gsa1fan · January 14, 2012 4:39AM

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. . . .

One is by the sword.
The other is by debt.

--John Adams 1826

Justacommeman · January 14, 2012 5:01AM

I had 15 people telling me to move, I got moving on my mind.

-----Jack White

MJ

BigRick · January 15, 2012 3:16AM

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
- Yogi Berra

"So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."
- Jesus - Matthew 7.12

"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye"

- Jesus - Matthew 7.1-5

JimDepot · January 16, 2012 2:35AM

<< "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch"

"Giving power and money to government is like giving the car keys and whiskey to teenage boys" -P.J. O'rourke >>

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. "
– Benjamin Franklin

Courtesy of Jim Sinclair's Mineset

InYHWHWeTrust · January 16, 2012 2:45AM

Big Rick gets 2 thumbs up for those

SanctionII · January 16, 2012 3:17AM

Don't know how important the people were who said the following, but I like these:

1. "I gotsta know.";

2. "She's a BRICK,...........HOUSE.";

3. "Hey La, Hey La,......... My Boyfriend's Back.";

4. "A man has got to know his limitations.";

5. "It's better to look stupid than to open mouth and prove it.";

6. "Ownership adds a point";

7. "One man's junk is another man's treasure"; and

8. "Yyyyyeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppp".

OldEastside · January 16, 2012 3:28AM

I've always been partial to Bruce Willis's
"Yipee Kayyay Muthu F*&%ah"

Steve

halfhunter · January 16, 2012 5:30AM

"That guy's nuttier than a porta-potty at a peanut festival"

Ron Shirley (Lizard Lick Towing)

HH

Pokermandude · January 16, 2012 5:39AM

"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- zero." - Voltaire, 1729

derryb · January 16, 2012 9:35AM

"central bank intervention allows commercial bankers and politicians to continually avoid difficult decisions related to the proper allocation of resources. " - Chris Ciovacco

Misallocation of resources and excessive debt is what ails the world economy.

yellowkid · January 16, 2012 9:44AM

"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching," Satchel Paige

mrearlygold · January 16, 2012 9:50AM

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Congressman Ron Paul MD

mrearlygold · January 18, 2012 12:56AM

“We live way beyond our means,with a foreign policy we can’t afford and an entitlement system that we have encouraged.”
Ron Paul

highcheese · January 19, 2012 10:10AM

"Revolution is born in the minds of men, long before any shots are fired or blood is shed." John Adams

pragmaticgoat · January 20, 2012 1:12AM

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Nov. 21, 1864. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cause me to tremble for 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 destroyed.

Ron Paul -- Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war.

mrearlygold · January 28, 2012 12:25PM

"Ours is not a fated existence, for nowhere is our destiny etched in stone. In the final analysis, the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would be with out it, there is no force that can stop them. If freedom is what we want, it is ours for the taking. Let the Revolution begin."

~Ron Paul

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