{"id":210,"date":"2011-02-16T02:05:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T02:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pauljjhansen.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2020-06-21T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:42:32","slug":"words-of-wisdom-old-sayings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pauljjhansen.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Words of Wisdom, Old sayings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pearls<\/span><\/strong> of Wisdom\/Notable Quotes\/Words of Wisdom\/Old sayings.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>[[[ When a man considers the consequences before doing that which is right, he has<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> already accepted a bribe. ]]]\u00a0 &#8211; Paul Hansen 2007<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>145. We are ignorant of things we choose to ignore. Another Anonymous<\/p>\n<p>144. Statism: The belief that freedom is by permission. Unknown<\/p>\n<p>143.\u00a0A picture is worth a thousand word, but rarely a thousand cents. Unknown<\/p>\n<p>142. Patience is waiting for all the witness to leave. Ted Kennedy<\/p>\n<p>141.\u00a0Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>140.\u00a0The further a man gets from God the further a man gets from being a man. Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>139.\u00a0It&#8217;s easier to fool people than to convince them\u00a0that\u00a0they have been fooled. &#8211; Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>138. The more laws, the less justice. &#8211; Marcus Tullius Cicero was born 2,111 years ago from 2005.<\/p>\n<p>137. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the chess. Chinese Proverb (First one killed by mousetrap.)<\/p>\n<p>136. \u00a0<em>It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. &#8211;<em>\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>136. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>135. Life most often offers only two choices, the first being &#8220;take it&#8221;, the second &#8220;leave it&#8221;. \u00a0Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>134. If voting changed anything, they&#8217;d make it illegal. &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.preparingyou.com\/wiki\/Emma_Goldman\">Emma Goldman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>133. State morality is immorality. &#8211; Paul Hansen<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>132. A single lie discovered is enough to create a contagious doubt over every truth expressed.\u00a0 \u2013Richard Nixon<\/p>\n<p>131. According to my best recollection, I don&#8217;t remember &#8211; Vincent, Jimmy<\/p>\n<p>130. But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain &#8211; that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. -Lysander Spooner<\/p>\n<p>129. People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. -Will Rogers<\/p>\n<p>128. The difference from Anger and Danger is only one &#8220;D&#8221; letter. -Unknown<\/p>\n<p>127. &#8220;Nothing&#8221; is impossible, ah, that is exactly what I do all day. \u00a0-Winnie the Pooh.<\/p>\n<p>126.\u00a0He\u00a0who has a &#8220;Why&#8221; to live for can bear almost any &#8220;How&#8221;. -F.\u00a0Nietzsche<\/p>\n<p>125.\u00a0\u201cFocus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.\u201d<br \/>\n-Bohdi Sanders<\/p>\n<p>124. Insane people swear they are sane and never question it, sane people question their own sanity daily. -Unknown<\/p>\n<p>123. Many a people use thin thread when mending their ways. -Old Saying<\/p>\n<p>122. Finding friends with the same mental disorder\u2026 \u00a0 priceless.\u00a0 -Life Long Democrat<\/p>\n<p>121. We all have a role in life, you have a very special role in my life, besides some one has to be wrong. \u00a0Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>120. Real friends are a whole lot better than a lot of just friends. \u00a0Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>119.\u00a0\u00a0More proof of biblical CONCEALED CARRY \u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Better is open rebuke than love that is concealed. (Proverbs 27:5)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>118. Some say a polite society does not bear arms. Hitler has a reputation of\u00a0<strong>courteously\u00a0<\/strong>opening doors for select groups of people, they being gas chamber doors. -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>117. Anyone that believes in absolute depravity\u00a0can not be all that bad. \u00a0-Reformed Calvinists \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>116.\u00a0&#8220;Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.&#8221; &#8211; Frederick Douglass, 1857<\/p>\n<p>115.\u00a0To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt<\/p>\n<p>114.\u00a0Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.\u2014Dietrich Bonhoeffer (A theologian during Hitlers reign.)<\/p>\n<p>113. Of late being apathetic is simply 88.8% pathetic. Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>112. Light travels faster than sound, this is why people appear much brighter until the start to speak. -Observant One<\/p>\n<p>111. I am not afraid of dying, I am afraid of not living. Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>110. A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it, a the truth is the truth even if no one believes it. \u00a0Unknown<\/p>\n<p>109. &#8220;Double or nothing.&#8221; \u00a0Someone that never intends on paying you anything.<\/p>\n<p>108. Ye are ether one that is a regenerate or a degenerate, there is no middle ground. Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>107.\u00a0A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. &#8211; Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>106. I never forget a name that I remember. -Confusionism<\/p>\n<p>105. You have heard- &#8220;eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die&#8221;, I say eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may be married. -Paul Hansen 2013<\/p>\n<p>104. Any thing you say or do will be twisted against you. -State Prosecutors<\/p>\n<p>103. When a panther calls, don&#8217;t anther. \u00a0-Dr Nash<\/p>\n<p>102. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -Frank Zappa<\/p>\n<p>101. Trust me. -Satan<\/p>\n<p>100.\u00a0As it was in Sodom and <strong>Gomorra<\/strong>:<br \/>\nWhen sin-oddity become the norm, soon comes\u00a0gone-a-wrya. \u2013Paul Hansen 2013<\/p>\n<p>99. If it is not broken, don&#8217;t use it. -Daycare Employee<\/p>\n<p>98. What ever floats your boat. -3000 BC, Critics of Noah<\/p>\n<p>97. <strong>N<\/strong>owledge is power. -2013 State Educated Student<\/p>\n<p>96. Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. \u00a0Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>95. \u00a0The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest\u00a0liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them\u00a0the truth. \u00a0H.L. Mencken<\/p>\n<p>94. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. \u00a0H.L. Mencken<\/p>\n<p>93. <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular; font-size: medium;\">\u201cA more certain way to <strong>attack religion is by <em>favor<\/em><\/strong>, by the comforts of life, by the hope of wealth; not by what reminds one of it, but by what makes one forget it; not by what makes one indignant, but by what makes men <em>lukewarm<\/em>, when other passions act on our souls, and those which religion inspires are <em>silent<\/em>. In the matter of changing religion, <em>State favors<\/em> are stronger than penalties.\u201d <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular; font-size: medium;\">Baron de Montesquieu<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular; font-size: small;\"><em>, The Spirit of the Laws,<\/em> Baron de Montesquieu (1748)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>92.\u00a0&#8220;We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.&#8221; -Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n<p>91. It is always the right time to do the right thing. &#8211;\u00a0<em>Martin Luther King<\/em>, <em>Jr<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>90.\u00a0&#8220;Paranoia is just having all the facts.&#8221; -William S. Burroughs<\/p>\n<p>89.\u00a0\u201cWhat you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n<p>88. There is only one rule and that rule is: there is no rules. -Idiot<\/p>\n<p>87. I believe everyone should be entitled to my opinion. -Mr. Know-it-all<\/p>\n<p>86.\u00a0 The brain is the most outstanding organ, it works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from birth until you fall in love.\u00a0 -Observant Man<\/p>\n<p>85. Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. -Ludwig von Mises<\/p>\n<p>84. Never have so many listened to so few who said so much after thinking so little&#8221;- Churchill<\/p>\n<p>83. Rags make paper, Paper makes money, Money makes banks, Banks make loans, Loans make poverty, Poverty makes rags. Anonymous<\/p>\n<p>82. The measure of a man is not how content he is when he has much, but how content he is when he has little. Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>81. Just as there is a vast difference from saying a god verses the God, so it is, the US is &#8220;a&#8221; government not &#8220;the&#8221; government. \u00a0Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>80. Never change things by fighting the existing reality&#8230;to change something build anew model that makes the existing model obsolete. &#8211;\u00a0 R. Bunkminster Fuller<\/p>\n<p>79. In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. &#8211; Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>78. &#8220;That government is <em>best<\/em> which <em>governs least<\/em>&#8220;. &#8211; Thoreau<\/p>\n<p>77.\u00a0 In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated scorned.\u00a0 When his cause succeeds,\u00a0 however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot. -\u009d Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>76. One man with courage is a majority. -Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>75. One man with the law is the majority. -Luis Ewing<\/p>\n<p>74. A lecture is when the information pass from the professors notes to the students notes without passing through the brain of either one.\u00a0 -Stuart Crane, phd<\/p>\n<p>73. The &#8220;&#8230;Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.&#8221; -Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p>72. Competition is a sin.\u00a0 -John D. Rockefeller<\/p>\n<p>71. Gold, silver, <em>precious <\/em>metals, are a threat to confiscation of wealth.\u00a0 -One world government \/ Federal Reserve<\/p>\n<p>70. He who beats all his guns into plow shares shall be plowing the land for those who did not. -Steve Engelmeyer<\/p>\n<p>69. If few men will go to the front to fight in the heat of battle, all else is meaningless. -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>68. If the minority is organized it will always prevail over a majority that is disorganized. -Stalin, Russia<\/p>\n<p>67.\u00a0 In the 1801 inaugural Thomas Jefferson said, &#8220;Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.&#8221; And he wrote, &#8220;I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.&#8221; [Letter, September 28, 1820.]<\/p>\n<p>66. Some men stumble over the Truth but quickly pick themselves up, brush themselves off and hurry on as if nothing had happened.\u00a0 -Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p>65. It is the Citizen&#8217;s first duty to question Authority.\u00a0 -Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n<p>64. Never ask a US government agent where he gets his authority, he has not a clue. -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>63. Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. -Winston Churchill &#8211; The Second World War<\/p>\n<p>62. We have a right to convene, but do we have the will. -Paul Hansen\u00a0 (Common Law Jury)<\/p>\n<p>61. A army must march for a days so that the People can for years. -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>60. Ballot Box or Cartridge Box, its their choice.\u00a0 -Lee ____?<\/p>\n<p>59. Three eternal points in antiquity of GUN CONTROL:\u00a0 Point 1.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Aim<\/strong>.\u00a0 Point 2. <strong>Steady<\/strong>. Point 3. <strong>Fire<\/strong>.\u00a0 -Steve Anders<\/p>\n<p>58. He who stands with God, though he be alone, shall never be a minority.\u00a0 -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>57. A conservative is simply a liberal who has been mugged. -unknown<\/p>\n<p>56. If you do not wish to stand up for your neighbors liberties, at least inform him that you are standing down. -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>55. God is easy to please but difficult to satisfy. -Anonymous<\/p>\n<p>54. Often coincidence is a miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.\u00a0 &#8211;<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">God<\/span> Anonymous<\/p>\n<p>53. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.&#8221;\u00a0 -Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>52. Has it ever occurred to you that nothing has ever occurred to God. -Kent Hovind<\/p>\n<p>51. Victory belongs not to the strong alone, but the vigilant and the brave.\u00a0 -unknown<\/p>\n<p>50. FREEDOM was not won with a REGISTERED GUN, -unknown<\/p>\n<p>49. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being a gift of ALMIGHTY GOD, it is not in the<br \/>\npower of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.<br \/>\nSamuel Adams 1772<\/p>\n<p>48. America \u201c National or Federal? (97 pages)<br \/>\nEach state, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal and not a national Constitution. The Federalist, No. 39, James Madison<\/p>\n<p>47. Republic or Democratic Government are liken to sheep and wolves working together.<br \/>\n-In a Democratic only the wolves (gov.) are armed to the teeth.<br \/>\n-In a Republic the sheep (people) are also well armed.<\/p>\n<p>46. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Like fire<\/span>, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.\u00a0 -George Washington<\/p>\n<p>45. Here&#8217;s my strategy on the Cold War:\u00a0 We win, they lose. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>44. The most terrifying words in the English language are: I&#8217;m from the government and I&#8217;m here to help. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>43. The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they&#8217;re ignorant:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just that they know so much that isn&#8217;t so. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>42. Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>41. I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment&#8217;s would have looked \u00c2\u00a0like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>40. The taxpayer: That&#8217;s someone who works for the federal government but doesn&#8217;t have to take the civil service examination.\u00a0 -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>39. Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>38. The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>37. I&#8217;ve laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it&#8217;s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.\u00a0 -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>36. It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>35. Government&#8217;s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>34. Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>33. No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>32. If we ever forget that we&#8217;re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>31. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. -George Washington 1752<\/p>\n<p>30. Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any<br \/>\nportion of the foreign world&#8230;\u00a0 -George Washington 1796<\/p>\n<p>29. The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.<br \/>\n&#8211; President John Quincy Adams 1821<\/p>\n<p>28. When the people fear government you have tyranny. When government fears the people you have liberty.\u00a0 -Unknown Man Killed by Government<\/p>\n<p>27. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and will never be. -Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>26. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.\u00a0 -Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>25. When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or quit being honest. -Unknown, honest.<\/p>\n<p>24. If you play it safe in life, you&#8217;ve decided that you don&#8217;t want to grow anymore. -Shirley Hufstedler<\/p>\n<p>23. Americans have the right and advantage of being armed &#8211; unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -James Madison (1789)<\/p>\n<p>22. Inflation is nothing accepted for something.\u00a0 -Merrill Jenkins, 1971<\/p>\n<p>21. But if you wish to be slaves of Banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits [out of thin air]. -Sir Josiah Stamp (English Banker)<\/p>\n<p>20. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.\u00a0 -Edward R. Murrow<\/p>\n<p>19. Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.\u00a0 -Marcus Tullius Cicero<\/p>\n<p>18. Knowledge is power, and power is knowledge. -unknown-<\/p>\n<p>17. Kings \/ Governments<br \/>\nHe has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.\u00a0 He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.\u00a0 -unknown<\/p>\n<p>16. The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.\u00a0 -Dante Alighieri<\/p>\n<p>15. As in official positions of authority, &#8216;Corruption sinks to the top&#8217;. Generally the good men will not get promoted. -Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>14. Being Government is &#8211; never having to say what authority you have.\u00a0 -Paul Hansen &#8211; 2008<\/p>\n<p>13. During this election time we need to keep these in mind:<br \/>\nYou cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.<br \/>\nYou cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.<br \/>\nYou cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.<br \/>\nYou cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.<br \/>\nYou cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.<br \/>\nYou cannot build character and courage by taking away people&#8217;s<br \/>\ninitiative and independence.<br \/>\nYou cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they<br \/>\ncould and should do for themselves.\u00a0 -Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n<p>12. Four Classes of People:<br \/>\nHe who knows not, and knows not that he knows not;<br \/>\nHe who knows not, and knows that he knows not;<br \/>\nHe who knows, but knows not that he knows; and<br \/>\nHe who knows, and knows that he knows. -unknown<\/p>\n<p>11. If there is to be trouble, let it be in my day so that my child can have peace.\u00a0 &#8211; Thomas Paine<\/p>\n<p>10. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.\u00a0 -Thomas Paine<\/p>\n<p>9. He that is in you is greater than He who is in the world. -some guy named Jesus<\/p>\n<p>8. When an honestly mistaken man comes face-to-face with the truth, then he must either cease being mistaken or stop being honest. &#8211; origin unknown<\/p>\n<p>7. The reason dogs have more friend than people is because they wage their tail and not their tongue. -Anonymous<\/p>\n<p>6. Once government no longer fulfilled its original purpose of protecting rights and property it should be overthrown. -John Locke-\u00a0 Precursor to the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>5. Everyone dies, not everyone really lives.\u00a0 -George Wallace (Irish War of Independence)<\/p>\n<p>4. I want to be the man my father never was, so that my sons can have what I could not grasp, that he may become a man that I could never be.\u00a0 -unknown<\/p>\n<p>3. You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence.\u00a0 -Charles Austin Beard<\/p>\n<p>2. The church has become a gathering of nominal men teaching other nominal men how to live nominally.\u00a0 -Pastor Phillip G. Kayser 2009<\/p>\n<p>1. When God asks questions, he is not looking for information.\u00a0 -Unknown<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<br \/>\nI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our<br \/>\nliberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow<br \/>\nprivate banks to control the issue of their currency, first by<br \/>\ninflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will<br \/>\ngrow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property<br \/>\nuntil their children wake-up ******** on the continent their fathers<br \/>\nconquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and<br \/>\nrestored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.\u009d -Thomas<br \/>\nJefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin<br \/>\n(1802) (????)<br \/>\n3rd president of US (1743 &#8211; 1826)<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\nEverything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is<br \/>\nnow coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of<br \/>\nbank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes<br \/>\nshould be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of<br \/>\nemploying their capital, if any they have, in manufactures,<br \/>\ncommerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to<br \/>\nburden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits,<br \/>\nprofits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs.\u00a0 \u201cThomas<br \/>\nJefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:61<\/p>\n<p>Certainly no nation ever before abandoned to the avarice and<br \/>\njugglings of private individuals to regulate according to their own<br \/>\ninterests, the quantum of circulating medium for the nation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to<br \/>\ninflate, by deluges of paper, the nominal prices of property, and<br \/>\nthen to buy up that property at 1s. in the pound, having first<br \/>\nwithdrawn the floating medium which might endanger a competition<br \/>\nin purchase. Yet this is what has been done, and will be done,<br \/>\nunless stayed by the protecting hand of the legislature. The evil has<br \/>\nbeen produced by the error of their sanction of this ruinous<br \/>\nmachinery of banks; and justice, wisdom, duty, all require that they<br \/>\nshould interpose and arrest it before the schemes of plunder and<br \/>\nspoilation desolate the country.\u00a0 \u201cThomas Jefferson to William C.<br \/>\nRives, 1819. ME 15:232<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Pearls<\/u><\/b>\u00a0of Weirdom:<\/p>\n<p>20.&#8221;radical&#8221; is defined as: &#8220;Fundamental; going to the roots<br \/>\nof anything.&#8221; (Webster&#8217;s Unabridged Encyclopedic<br \/>\nDictionary, A.D. 1957)<\/p>\n<p>19. Those who promote crime often do under pretense of<br \/>\nprotection. -Paul Hansen (Gun Control)<\/p>\n<p>18. A gun in hand is better than two in trunk.<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>17. My best work is always done under pressure, mostly<br \/>\nbecause that is the only time I work. -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>16. The great American irony, The lunatics are in charge of<br \/>\nthe asylum. -Chet West<\/p>\n<p>15. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who<br \/>\nfalsely believe they are free. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/p>\n<p>14. It is not important who votes, but who counts the vote.<br \/>\n-Stalin<\/p>\n<p>13. A total world population of 250-300 million people, a<br \/>\n95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.\u00a0 -Ted<br \/>\nTurner, Interview with Audubon magazine.<\/p>\n<p>12. In today&#8217;s world, Samuel Goldwyn&#8217;s words are poignant.<br \/>\n&gt; He was born in Warsaw, Poland. He made great movies<br \/>\nand great aphorisms, known affectionately as Goldwynisms:<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;A verbal contract isn&#8217;t worth the paper it&#8217;s written on.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his<br \/>\nhead examined.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;Gentlemen, include me out.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;I can give you a definite perhaps.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;If I could drop dead right now, I&#8217;d be the happiest man<br \/>\nalive.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;Pictures are for entertainment. Messages should be<br \/>\ndelivered by Western Union.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;I don&#8217;t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell<br \/>\nme the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;If I look confused, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m thinking.&#8221;<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; &#8220;You fail to overlook the crucial point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>11. You can not fight City Hall.\u00a0 -Lying Lawyer<\/p>\n<p>10. If it wasn&#8217;t for lawyers we would not need lawyers.<br \/>\n-unknown-<\/p>\n<p>9. The state is an institution built up for the sake of<br \/>\nexercising violence.\u00a0 -Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 1917<\/p>\n<p>8. They seemingly pay us so we seemingly work.<br \/>\n-Russian Worker, 1990<\/p>\n<p>7. One should never doubt what no one else believes.<br \/>\n-Willy Wonka<\/p>\n<p>6. Some day the Internet will be on the World Wide Web.<br \/>\n-Homer Simpson<\/p>\n<p>5. Their judge (governor) wears a black robe and calls them by<br \/>\nnumber.<br \/>\nMy Judge (governor Jesus) wears a white robe and calls Me by name.<br \/>\n-unknown<\/p>\n<p>4. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has<br \/>\nalready earned my contempt. He has been given a large<br \/>\nbrain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully<br \/>\nsuffice. &#8211; Albert Einstein \u00c2\u00a0(SEE <a href=\"http:\/\/rescomp.stanford.edu\/%7Echeshire\/EinsteinQuotes.html\">Quotes<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>3. Not everything that counts can be counted, and not<br \/>\neverything that can be counted counts.&#8221; (Sign hanging in<br \/>\nEinstein&#8217;s office at Princeton)<\/p>\n<p>2. Law is simply one way the ruling class maintains its<br \/>\npower over the lower classes.\u00a0 -Karl Marks 1870<\/p>\n<p>1. The only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised<br \/>\nover any member of a civilized community, against his will,<br \/>\nis to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical<br \/>\nor moral, is not sufficient warrant.\u00a0 -John Stuart Mill 1860<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When a man considers the consequences before doing that which is right, he has<br \/>\nalready accepted a bribe.&#8221;\u00a0 -Paul Hansen 2007<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom comes at a price, but no price is to high.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most people will give up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">some<\/span> of their rights for a belief<br \/>\nin security, others will give up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">many<\/span> of their rights for a<br \/>\nbelief in security, but only a select few people will not<br \/>\ngive up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> rights for any belief in security, for all<br \/>\n&#8216;<strong>rights&#8217;<\/strong> are priceless gifts from God.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2007<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A free people claims their rights as derived from the<br \/>\nlaws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief<br \/>\nmagistrate.&#8221; Thomas Jefferson:\u00a0 Rights of British<br \/>\nAmerica, 1774. ME 1:209, Papers 1:134<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of<br \/>\nwhich society is formed and municipal laws established.&#8221;<br \/>\nThomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797. ME 9:422<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is natural, all things come from the creator. -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A &#8216;police state&#8217; is no state at all, but much less.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Show me a man that asks good questions, and I will<br \/>\nshow you a man worth talking to.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bigger the government is the smaller you are.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One mans trash is another mans garbage.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2005<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">right<\/span> you need to stay and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fight<\/span>&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2005<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You ain&#8217;t got nothing till you put God in it.&#8221; -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knowledge is power, power is knowledge.&#8221; -unknown-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When one man murders he is a murderer, when an<br \/>\norganized group does it he is a governance.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>God has designed life so that if only a small percent of<br \/>\nmen do the right thing freedom prevails, the problem is,<br \/>\nthey do not. -Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Politic defined: &#8216;poly&#8217; is much or many, &#8216;tic&#8217; is a blood<br \/>\nsucker.&#8221;\u00a0 -david clarence 2007<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one has ever accused me of being reasonable.&#8221;<br \/>\n-david clarence 2007<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life is over rated, dying for what is right is not.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open mined, no thanks, I would rather think.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Individuals should be left as free as possible to control<br \/>\ntheir own lives without government interference as long<br \/>\nas their behavior does not injure anyone else.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The power to tax &#8216;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">includes<\/span>&#8216; the power to destroy, no<br \/>\nstate has such power over a sovereign.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>Never use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> laws and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> courts to defend <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your<\/span><br \/>\nrights and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your<\/span> liberties. -Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have the facts on your side, argue the law,<br \/>\nand if the facts and the law are not on your side, argue<br \/>\nthat there is a higher law which must be considered.<br \/>\n-Aristotle\u00a0 322 B.C. (before cars)<\/p>\n<p>Reality is merely an illusion.\u00a0 -Paul Hansen 2008<\/p>\n<p>America is a nation of institutions, are you one of the<br \/>\n&#8216;committed&#8217; to a specialized institution.&#8221; -Paul Hansen 2009<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re a seeing person in a blind world, it&#8217;s best to<br \/>\nrearrange the furniture little by little.\u00a0 -Paul Hansen 2009<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t that you don&#8217;t know that gets you into trouble.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s what you know for sure that just ain&#8217;t so.\u00a0 -Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>One thing our organization lacks and that is<br \/>\norganization. Chet West 2009<\/p>\n<p>Dis-ease is a disease we should all avoid. &#8211; unknown<\/p>\n<p>How is it that a nation once under God hath become an<br \/>\nbarackocracy obamanation. &#8211; Paul Hansen 2009<\/p>\n<p>Why, one asks, if you take God out of a nation one is left with a &#8216;<strong>godless nation<\/strong>&#8216;?\u00a0 -Paul Hansen<\/p>\n<p>A half truth (lie) is like a half brick, it can be thrown<br \/>\ntwice as far, and is twice as likely to reach its target,<br \/>\n(believed). -unknown<\/p>\n<p>When principles that run against your deepest<br \/>\nconvictions begin to win the day, then battle is your<br \/>\ncalling and peace has become sin; you must, at the price<br \/>\nof dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend<br \/>\nand enemy, with all the fire of your faith. -Abraham<br \/>\nKuyper<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to attract sellout crowds, today&#8217;s churches, are in danger<br \/>\nof selling out the gospel.&#8221;\u00a0 -Petter Jennings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearls of Wisdom\/Notable Quotes\/Words of Wisdom\/Old sayings. 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