Vince Mariano:  

Vince is from Levittown, New York. Vince's schools include General Douglas MacArthur High School. Vince later attended Stony Brook University. Music Vince likes includes The Afghan Whigs, GuitarZoom.com, Gibson Guitar. Movies Vince likes include FrackNation, Act of Valor, Seven Days in Utopia. TV shows Vince likes include VH1 Classic, ESPNU, Feherty. One of Vince's favorite quotes is:"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. - Edmund Burke "The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." ~Winston Churchill There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. ~John Adams Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. ~Judge Learned Hand What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself. All your words and actions define the world you want to live in. “There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society. . .” Martin Luther King, Jr “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ~ Benjamin Franklin "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” - The Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know." —Donald Rumsfeld "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business." -- President Calvin Coolidge "It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement." — Etienne de la Boetie “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, 19th century historian 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 f...Expand for more