Quotes.........

[HARDCORE]

"Both major political parties will verbally champion your right to say what is on your mind - until, of course, you say it!" H. Rick Tavares - 26 January 2009

[HARDCORE]

"Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry."
-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)


"War is the health of the State."
-- Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)
Source: The State (1918)

[1CAVCCO15MED]

The early worm gets the bird. Me

[HARDCORE]

"If one can not accept truth, than he may indeed have to face oblivion!" H. Rick Tavares - 1-27-09
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January 29, 2009 at 7:03 a.m.

"When our Forefathers fought in places like Lexington, New Orleans, The Alamo, Gettysburg, San Juan Hill, etc, etc, they fought as AMERICANS UNITED! They Did Not Fight As Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives or Liberals, But Rather As Brothers, And Only As Brothers Can We Survive." H. Rick Tavares - 1-29-2009 [As It Appeared In the San Diego Union Tribune 1-29-2009]

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"Truly Great Men Are Born To Face The Elements Of Time" H. Rick Tavares - 1-29-2009
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[HARDCORE]

"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?"
-- Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist



"You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it."
-- Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist



"If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time."
-- Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist

[HARDCORE]

"Gold is still the ultimate store of wealth. It's the world's only true money. And there isn't much of it to go around. All of it ever mined would fit into a small building - a 56 foot cube. The annual world production would fit into a 14 foot cube, roughly the size of an ordinary living room. If each Chinese citizen were to buy just one ounce, it would take up the annual supply for the next 200 years."
-- Mark Nestmann --- author
Source: "How To Achieve Personal And Financial Privacy In A Public Age

[HARDCORE]

"University education in journalism is a wonderful thing. Every now and then, someone has to come along to break that mold and pioneer a new path." H. Rick Tavares 2-4-2009

I detest those who tell me how to “Walk The Walk”, especially when most of them have never tred the path. H. Rick Tavares 2-4-2009

If you are going to dedicate your life to something, make sure it is your something. H. Rick Tavares 2-4-2009

Bull-crap is plentiful, unfortunately the only thing that it fertilizes is more bull-crap! H. Rick Tavares 2-4-2009

"Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man."
-- Philo of Alexandria
(20 BC - 50 AD) Hellenistic Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt


"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

[HARDCORE]

"Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality."
-- Ezra Pound - (1885-1972) American poet
April 9, 1942



"Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt."
-- Ezra Pound ---- (1885-1972) American poet
March 25, 1943


"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
-- Frederic Bastiat -- (1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848
Source: "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1848)

[HARDCORE]

“If arrogance does indeed proceed the way to a fall, then so to does complacency, incompetence and vested politics!” H. Rick Tavares, 6 February 2009

“You can not justify one political failure by attempting to trump it with yet another!” H. Rick Tavares, 6 February 2009

“If it is true that a fool and his money are soon parted, then we are indeed that fool, and the greedy in government and big business are the ones who are orchestrating the parting!” H. Rick Tavares, 6 February 2009

[HARDCORE]

"Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it."
-- Cullen Hightower



"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
-- George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist



"There is no wealth but life."
-- John Ruskin
(1819-1900) British author, artist, social critic