Tim > Tim's Quotes

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“The absence of a police state is that people are free, and if you don’t commit crimes you can do what you want. But today, you can’t open up a business, you can’t develop land, you can’t go to the bank, you can’t go to the doctor without the government knowing what you’re doing. They talk about medical privacy, that’s gone. Financial privacy, that’s gone. The right to own property, that’s essentially gone. So you have to get permission from the government for almost everything. And if that is the definition of a police state, that you can’t do anything unless the government gives you permission, we’re well on our way. Ron Paul”
― Mark Goodwin, Conspiracy

“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”
― Mark Goodwin, American Meltdown

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” -John Adams”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy

“Just as Jim had said, given a little nudge and enough freedom to operate, commerce and markets were the natural order of things.”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“America had spent decades building an entire class of people who were made comfortable in poverty. They were taught that the government would always take care of them through welfare programs. They learned from previous generations to milk the system and attain a standard of living that surpassed most of the rest of the world. Their only required task to sustain that standard of living was to show up to the polls every few years and vote for the gravy train candidates.”
― Mark Goodwin, American Meltdown

“The true Republican Party began as the Jeffersonian-Republicans. Small government, state sovereignty, non-intervention and no federal bank that can tax the citizens through inflationary money creation to be spent on the profligate lifestyle of an obese state.”
― Mark Goodwin, American Exit Strategy