|
Post by robeiae on Jun 28, 2018 20:39:08 GMT -5
And Opty, here's a suggestion for your game on FB:
Who said "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have"?
If you google that quote, you'll find the correct source pretty easily now, but I swear I was way ahead of the curve on this (Don may be able to back me up, if he remembers the discussion, from a good number of years ago). Then, the quote was improperly sourced all over the Net. Now, much of that has been corrected. And I think the people claiming to have found the original source got it through me, one way or another. I probably should have made a bigger deal of it when I found the source originally...written an article or something on it.
|
|
|
Post by Optimus on Jun 28, 2018 20:47:03 GMT -5
Ooh, I recall that being attributed to Jefferson a lot, but I also recall reading in Forbes or something like that a while back that it wasn't really him. I don't recall who really said it, though. I probably won't do the game again on FB for a few weeks. Gotta let the anticipation build. Main reason I did it this time is because I couldn't find the source and had heard it attributed to at least 3 different people (James, Lee, and Buddha). Stuff like that bugs me. I hoped that someone who's smarter and/or has better Google-fu detective skills than me could find it. I've kind of already planned to use the "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" for the next one. But, I might use your suggestion for round 3!
|
|
|
Post by michaelw on Jun 28, 2018 20:49:48 GMT -5
And Opty, here's a suggestion for your game on FB: Who said "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have"? If you google that quote, you'll find the correct source pretty easily now, but I swear I was way ahead of the curve on this (Don may be able to back me up, if he remembers the discussion, from a good number of years ago). Then, the quote was improperly sourced all over the Net. Now, much of that has been corrected. And I think the people claiming to have found the original source got it through me, one way or another. I probably should have made a bigger deal of it when I found the source originally...written an article or something on it. Looks like it came from Remember these Things by Paul Harvey. Is that right?
|
|
|
Post by robeiae on Jun 28, 2018 20:53:29 GMT -5
Usually, it was attributed to Jefferson, Ford, or Goldwater. Indeed, (Gerald) Ford certainly said it. But it doesn't seem like he came up with it (there is a possibility that he did, but there's no way to verify it).
|
|
|
Post by robeiae on Jun 28, 2018 20:58:43 GMT -5
And Opty, here's a suggestion for your game on FB: Who said "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have"? If you google that quote, you'll find the correct source pretty easily now, but I swear I was way ahead of the curve on this (Don may be able to back me up, if he remembers the discussion, from a good number of years ago). Then, the quote was improperly sourced all over the Net. Now, much of that has been corrected. And I think the people claiming to have found the original source got it through me, one way or another. I probably should have made a bigger deal of it when I found the source originally...written an article or something on it. Looks like it came from Remember these Things by Paul Harvey. Is that right? Yes. And that's what I discovered--all on my own--back in 2005 or so. As I said, the quote was wrongly attributed all over the Net. I couldn't find one site that credited Paul Harvey. Now, he's credited in lots of places. The wrinkle in this: Harvey published that book in 1952. But Gerald Ford was already in the House at that point in time and some have claimed that he used the phrase during those days all of the time. It's possible Harvey got it from him, but Harvey is the only demonstrable source.
|
|