Ponder This

From Say It With A Song, a member of the Dennis Miller Zone, with his commentary:

William Boetcker quotes: " You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." COMMON SENSE

Bertrand de Jouvenel: "The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State"...."A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves" FOLLOW BLINDLY - YES WE CAN

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation." NO KIDDING

Karl Marx: "My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism"....."From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." MAKING PROGRESS

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "I do not believe in communism any more than you do, but there is nothing wrong with the communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have are Communists." THE NEW FDR?

Josef Stalin: "America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." HALFWAY THERE

Norman Thomas : "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." CHANGE IT TO 'PROGRESSIVES'

Herbert Hoover: "Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency.' It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe....This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." NEVER WASTE A GOOD CRISES

Nikita Khrushchev: "We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." REALLY?

Bill Clinton: 1)"The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth." 2)"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say." 3)"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees." 4)"A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military." 5)"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." CONFUSED OR A PLAN?