From: mpc+@pitt.edu (Mike Contento)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:09:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Hi, here's some quotes from my finger plan file. Most are from a book by
    Lawrence J. Peter called "Peter's Quotations". (Anyone know if he has
    a second volume out?)              - mike contento

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States.
The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.
                                                               -Arthur Godfrey

If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation
was bad, he should see how bad it is WITH representation.
                                                     - The Old Farmers Almanac

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
                                                            - Francis Thompson

On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God,
for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
                                                           - Laurence J. Peter

The agnostics prayer: "O God, if there is a god, save
my soul, if I have a soul"
                                                    - Ernest Renan (1823-1890)

I believe that there is one God and that this country was established with that
foundational belief; that our morality emanates from our Divine Creator, whose 
laws are not subject to amendment, modification, or revision by man."
                                                              - Rush Limbaugh

Show me the man who doesn't want his gun registered, and I
will show you a man who shouldn't have a gun.
                                                              - Homer Cummings

By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired
at whim, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred
have become popular pastimes.
                                                     - Martin Luther King, Jr.

With all the violence and murder and killings we've had in the
United States,I think you will agree that we must keep firearms
from people who have no business with guns.
                                                - Robert F. Kennedy (May 1968)

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think
like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
                                                               -Sydney Harris

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except those
that just don't add up.                                        - James Magary

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing.
Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.             - Boris Marshalov

Any party that takes credit for the rain must not be surprised
if its opponents blame it for the drought.                 - Dwight W.Morrow

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where
there is no river.                                        - Nikita Krushchev

Nobody believes a rumor in Washington until its officially
denied.                                                    - Edward Cheyfitz

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a
city that goes around in circles!
                                                           - John Mason Brown

Democracy without morality is impossible.
                                                           - Jack Kemp

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion
and morality are indispensable supports. And let us with caution indulge the
supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
                                        - George Washington (Farewell Address)

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to
total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
                                                                - Woody Allen
-- 
[mike contento] I'm a walking ecomomy - my hairline's in a recession, 
[ univ.of pgh.] my waist is a victim of inflation, and together 
[mpc+@pitt.edu] they're putting me in a deep depression!"   -M. Segal
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