Tomas Jefferson' interesting quotes (and knowledge)

"If you can dream it... You can do it." ~ Walt Disney

Definitely some great quotes.

"Go not where the path may lead but make your own path and leave a trail"

i bet this man is rolling over in his grave about how big of pussies we've all become.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Ben Franklin

I like Ronald Reagan

cool sig dude !

Nice avatar dude, phil collins with the mustard tiger tshirt.

"If the people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

What the hell happened to this wisdom with later presidents....
Wallstreet, bankers, big corporations and lobbyists got them finally?

"If she has a pussy, she's qualified" - BVF

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" - Voltaire

" Only The Dead have seen the End of War!! "

Plato born in Athens or Aegina between 429 and 423 BC

haha

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

This one explains the mess we are in with The Federal Reserve, etc:
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson

"If the people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

WOW, thats exactly what is going on.

The FED needs to vanish...Go Ron Paul!!!

People have been warning us for a long, long time. Here's some great Henry Ford Quotes

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. "

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. "

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. "

"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."

"There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

Son, if your not in bed by mid-night, come home.

The definition of a bi-sexual is when you reach into your lover's pants, you are never disappointed.

My Dad

Some nice additions guys ! Keep them coming.

I have onemore but I don't know where it came from (been using that against my GF for so many years):

"Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups"

Here are some Ronald Reagan quotes for you then;

"People don't start wars, governments do."

"Most [tax revisions] didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers."

"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."

"I like your motto: One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

"Trust... but verify."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - so true!

Albert Einstein also had some nice ones:

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it."

"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

"I have always been afraid of banks."

"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. "

"Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. "

"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."

"One man with courage makes a majority. "

"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. "

Andrew Jackson

Bruce Lee:

"Ideas are the beginning of all achievement."

this thread rocks!!!!!!!!

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "

"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. "

"I'm an idealist without illusions."

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. "

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. "

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."

"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. "

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

JFK

Sun Tzu:

"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."


Galileo Galilei:

"You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself."


Aristotle:

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"Man is by nature a political animal."

"Change in all things is sweet."

"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."

"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Homer Simpson:

"An unfortunate person is one tries to fart but shits instead."

"If rabbits feet are so lucky, what happened to the rabbit?"

"Wedding rings: the world's smallest handcuffs."

Abraham Lincoln:

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."



Nelson Mandela:

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."



William Shakespeare:

"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."



George Washington:

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

"We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience."

Benjamin Franklin:

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."

"God helps those who help themselves."

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."

"Well done is better than well said."

"When in doubt, don't."

Deserves it's own post.

"Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide." Dick Cheney

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. "

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. "

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. "

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."

George Washington

Post more positive quotes please that people actually can use.
These are all so gloomy

Reality sucks doesn't it.

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

There is no hell. There is only France.

Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it's not open.

If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.

Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport

You drank beer, you played golf, you watched football - WE EVOLVED!

You have just destroyed one model XQJ-37 nuclear powered pansexual roto-plooker....and you're gonna have to pay for it.

Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
FZ: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"

Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible.

Who are the brain police?

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers.
A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.

There are more love songs than anything else.
If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Hey, you know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white.

Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them in the ass.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

FZ

JFK:

?We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity?.. anything you can imagine we already know how to do.?

- Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me & the financial institutions at the rear, the latter is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned, and 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 the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless."

- Abraham Lincoln

You'll love this book then:
http://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Zero-Poin.../dp/0767906276
It's an excellent read

Looks good, do they mention Nikola Tesla in the book?

It's a free world. I was merely hoping to get you to use your quote expertise in a more positive manner and the word "please" ment a very decent request.
So feel free to do as you please.

no, not that I recall, but bunch of others and exciting new technologies waiting to pop-out any moment
(you mean from http://www.teslamotors.com/) ?

All of those men I quoted died for what they believed in. Except one, he shot his friend.

From Tesla Motors?

Hmm, no...

From the early 1900's. Nikola Tesla was an inventor/engineer who worked with Thomas Edison.

Little mix up, sorry I believe he was in the book yes. I read it like 1 year ago and gave it to a friend later.
But....as quoted above: "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
Tesla motors is making electric cars that run on 3 bucks of AC power and go for 250 miles
and go fasters from 0 to 60 then 99.9% of all cars out there exept some ferrari's.......
See http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?p=15195102 where posted the pics/videos and an english language documentary that was on TV here last week

This one is one of the best yet in this thread:
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell "

Here are some Abraham Lincoln quotes.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Albert Einstein

“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys information, and religions destroy spirituality.”

Michael Ellner

"Slave poontang is just as pink on the inside"