Miscellaneous 174

1) "I predict future happiness for the American people if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson.............2) "Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism." Vladimir Lenin.............3) "Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." Benjamin Franklin.............4) "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at 40 you have no brain." Winston Churchill.............5) "You will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government." James Madison.............6) "To live in this process (the slow march to fascism) is absolutely not to be able to notice it....one no more saw it developing day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head." Milton Mayer, "They Thought They Were Free".............7) "We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibilities and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions." Adolph Hitler.............8) "No matter how trustworthy he may appear, do not give the monkey your pistol." Unknown.................................................................................P.S. And, no, I'm not comparing President Obama to Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. I'm simply trying to underscore the fact that no matter how benign and beneficent that any government at first glance may appear to be.......