Your Economy (No Politics)

[basserdan]

This is a 9.5 minute cartoon made over sixty years ago. It has a scary contemporary application.

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens…" --Thomas Jefferson, 1813

"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." --John Adams, 1814


"Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmicist" --Unknown


"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes ...." --Cesare Beccaria


"Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness." --George Washington, 1790
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature." --Benjamin Franklin

"Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder." --George Washington, 1779


"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” --Samuel Adams, 1780
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." --George Washington, 1783


"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." --Patrick Henry

"It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they think they know isn't so" - Ronald Reagan

(The above rec'd via email earlier tonight)