Posted on 11/01/2008 1:37:18 PM PDT by knarf
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I was searching for a quote that would help make the point that our votes on Election Day are not for a person or to be a participant in some media hyped historical achievement. Voting is also not some statement that preserves your self-proclaimed political virtue. Voting is a selfless act. Voting is something we do for our country. Voting is fulfilling our most important duty as citizens of the world’s freest nation. It is the most important thanks that we can offer to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have sacrificed from the beginning of our Nation’s history to the present day to ensure our right to choose our leaders. Please do not take this obligation lightly.
Posted: 01 Nov 2008 11:27 AM CDT
J. D. Pendry
I was searching for a quote that would help make the point that our votes on Election Day are not for a person or to be a participant in some media hyped historical achievement. Voting is also not some statement that preserves your self-proclaimed political virtue. Voting is a selfless act. Voting is something we do for our country. Voting is fulfilling our most important duty as citizens of the world’s freest nation. It is the most important thanks that we can offer to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have sacrificed from the beginning of our Nation’s history to the present day to ensure our right to choose our leaders. Please do not take this obligation lightly.
There were simply too many historical quotes from which to choose and too little space to discuss them all. Let the voices of history say to you better than I ever could that our votes are for America and whether it will survive as the nation it started out to be and became or whether it gets on the track failed nations have followed throughout history. As Governor Palin reminded us, “America is not the problem. America is the solution.” Just some thoughts to ponder as you pull the lever that will decide the direction of the world’s most blessed nation.
A vote for freedom unlike that experienced by any nation and the idea that America, as it now stands, is the world’s last great hope:
“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” – John Winthrop, founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630
“As for me, give me liberty or give me death!” - Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.
“What a glorious morning for America!” – Samuel Adams (on hearing gunfire at Lexington, April 19, 1775)
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.” - Thomas Paine
“Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.” - Samuel Eliot Morison
“There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only hundred percent Americanism.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“Some people’s idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.” – Winston Churchill
“Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” – Winston Churchill
A vote for the survival of the economic system that has produced the most advanced, prosperous and wealthy nation in world history:
“Every individual … intends only his own gain and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end to which was no part of his intention. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectively than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.” – Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
A vote against the economic system that failed in every country where it was tried and thank you Joe the Plumber for asking , “A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.” – Frances Bacon
“From each according to his abilities, and to each according to his needs.” – Karl Marx
“What is a communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.” – Ebenezer Elliott
“A liberal is a man who tells other people how to spend their money.” – Anonymous – Attributed to Carter Glass, 1938
“Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment that are soundly established.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“The economy of Communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.” Adlai Stevenson
“All socialism involves slavery.” – Herbert Spencer
“Any man who is not something of a socialist before he is forty has no heart. Amy man who is still a socialist after he is forty has no head.” Wendell L. Wilkie
A vote against the ideologies of Alkinsky, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi, et al.
“A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“All reactionaries are paper tigers.” – Mao Zedung
A vote against a dishonest news media:
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Propaganda is a soft weapon: hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.” – Jean Anouilh
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” – Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
“If you feed the people with revolutionary slogans, they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day, they will say “To hell with you.” – Nikita Khrushchev
A vote against empty promises:
“Change is certain. Progress is not.” – E. H. Carr, From Napoleon to Stalin
“Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.” – John F. Kennedy
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” – Francis Bacon
“He that lives on hope will die fasting.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Hope deceives more men that cunning can.” – Marquis De Vauvenargues
“A nation may lose its liberties in a day, and not miss them for a century.” – Montesquieu
“Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.” – Adlai Stevenson
A vote for trust in the American people:
“You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
“About a thing on which the public thinks long it commonly thinks right.” – Samuel Johnson
If you have not yet voted, pray about your choice. Think long about our future, the future of our children and grandchildren. Vote for the future of America.
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