"It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich."
by:
Paul Harvey
[Paul Harvey Aurandt] (1918-2009) American radio broadcaster
Source:
The Biggest Tax You Pay, Conservative Chronicle, November 8, 1995
Rating:
 
Bookmark and Share  
Reader comments about this quote:
Like a self-righteous buncha trust-fund flower children.
 -- Byron, Fort Collins, CO     
    		•  
    (-: Ahh yes, a Kodak moment picturing well the statist theocracy's ambition, only to encounter a socially transmitted disease. ;-)
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
    		•  
    Yep. reaching into each others pockets for a worthless currency. The whole thing is going to collapse. It's inevitable and I hope you're prepared.
     -- J Carlton, Calgary     
    		•  
    Sounds like a great update of the Bastiat quote. "The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else."
     -- J. Allen, Arlington, Va     
    		•  
    Robbing Peter to pay Paul is just fine with Paul but Peter ain't too happy.
     -- jim k, Austin,Tx     
    		•  
    Great quote and so true, especially now.
     -- Chuck, New Windsor, NY     
    		•  
    What an inane, meaningless statement.
     -- dick, fort worth     
  • 2
    		•  
    We will all feel rich if we can surrond ourselves with people who are groveling at our feet. Go live in Bangladesh if you really want to feel rich.
     -- Waffler, Smith     
  • 1
    		•  
    Or we could all share Dick and Wafflers vision of complete and total misery with no hope and no aspirations...shared "equally" of course. I can see it all now....we can stand in a circle and feel secure in knowing it will never get any better...in any way. Now there's your "Hope and Change" in action. lol
     -- J Carlton, Calgary     
    		•  
    I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE QUOTE THIS IS A FYI STATEMENT FROM AN ARTICLE YEARS AGO IN THE SPOTLIGHT/AMERICAN FREE PRESS CONCERNING PAUL HARVEY. HE WAS NO PATRIOT. HE WAS A GOV. HIT MAN. HIS HITS WERE CHARACTER ASSASSINATIONS. AT THE GOVERN- MENTS BEHEST HE HAS DESTROYED A NUMBER OF PATRIOTS WHO DARED QUESTION OR CRITICIZE THE GOVMNT. IN ONE PARTICULAR CASE, THE GOV. SIC'D HIM ON THIS EXTREMELY PATRIOTIC GENERAL (I BELIEVE HE WAS A GENERAL & I CAN'T REMEMBER HIS NAME) HIS RECORD WAS SPOTLESS ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN FREE PRESS. THE CHAR. ASSINATION WAS SO HURTFUL THAT THIS OFFICER COMMITTED SUICIDE AFTER HE HEARD PAUL HARVEYS ATTACK ON THE RADIO. I'M SURE THAT SOMEONE AT THE AMER. FREE PRESS COULD GIVE YOU HIS NAME. THANK YOU FOR THIS FORUM IN WHICH TO PLACE THESE COMMENTS. PATRICK A. COY
     -- PATRICK A. COY, KANSAS CITY, MO     
  • 1
    		•  
    After Reagen, Thatcher and Mulroney hollowed out the center of Western Civilization and convinced the voters that they would be taken care of by some voodoo economics; there was nothing left except to put our hands in each others pockets. Yes, someone has to pay the bill. Yes, it's the corporations: Those ones that are profiting the most from our wage/slave system.
     -- L. Hanson, Edmonton, Canada     
  • 1
    		•  
    It is the Unions that are profiting the most from the wage/slave system. Don't you see it? And if they can't get their way it is mob rule. Fat Cats are the Union Leaders.
     -- anonymous, USA     
    		•  
    And only those too lazy to move themselves out of poverty by hard work instead of asking for part of the hard workers' money, STILL want their little socialism/communism. Takes a long time to get this envious and stupid. They say corporations/bankers etc...are greedy/selfish? What are you? Envious; lazy; greedy; selfish! And theives to want and think you 'deserve' other people's money and things. We have children running our country at this time especially. And the Bible states at this time we shall have leaders with minds of little children.
     -- Rhonda, Buckhannon     
  • 1
    		•  
    Though the "system" is rigged, exposing the corruption, bringing to "light" our Constitutional Republican form of government, deregulation, tax cuts, lowering of corporate rates, securing the southern border, have all been moves in the right direction. Master Builders are required for righting our Ship of Liberty, our Ship of State. Restoration and the CPM method. 
    MAGA to KAG
     -- Ronw13, Oregon     
  • 2
    		•  

    "But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." -- Frederic Bastiat

    I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison
    (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President


     -- MARY, MI     
    		•  
     
    Rate this quote!
    How many stars?
    0
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
     
    What do YOU think?
    Your name:
    		 Your town:
        CLICK JUST ONCE!

    Today's Quotes
    More Quotations
    Most Popular
    Recent Comments
    Get a Quote-A-Day! Free!
    Liberty Quotes sent to your mail box.
    RSS Subscribe
    Quotes & Quotations - Send This Quote to a Friend

    © 1998-2024 Liberty-Tree.ca