Quotes - David Mcdaniel (Lexington, KY) Showing 1-11 of 11

#1

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: capitalism, democracy, fascism

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#2

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#3

“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”
― Eisenhower, Dwight

tags: war

18 likes

#4

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression

729 likes

#5

“The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.”
― Rachel Maddow

tags: coming-out-of-the-closet, commentary, gay, honesty, lesbian, lgbt, msnbc, political, politics, rachel-maddow, truth

505 likes

#6

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

1994 likes

#7

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#9

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: humor, inspirational, leaders, politics, presidents

208 likes

#10

“My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”
― Harry S. Truman

64 likes

#11

“Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: inspirational

71 likes

#12

“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

tags: economics, greed

108 likes

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