"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance;it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and lost it, have never known it again." -- Ronald Reagan

"The attempt to make heaven on Earth invariably produces Hell" Karl Popper

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses...

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1) Any law the electorate sees as being open to being perverted from its original intent will be perverted in a manner that exceeds the manner of perversion seen at the time.
2) Any law that is so difficult to pass it requires the citizens be assured it will not be a stepping stone to worse laws will in fact be a stepping stone to worse laws.
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Scrappy Joe Biden from Scranton PA(kind of sounds like a Jimmy Cagney character doesn't it) said this on Sunday. "mark my words...watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision. Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as...

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So long, suckers. Millionaire hedge fund boss thanks 'idiot' traders and retires at 37 | Business | The Guardian

So I guess someone made money betting on people's greed catching up to them.

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This is priceless. Notice how callus Frank is acting at the beginning. I guess he thinks this will be a cakewalk.Hahahaha

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