Posted on 01/18/2009 9:09:51 AM PST by Pharmboy
"Free people will set the course of history." George W. Bush
"Never, never, never give up." Winston Churchill
"Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Frederick Douglass
"Fear is the passion of slaves." Patrick Henry
"Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity." George W. Bush
"Character, not circumstances, makes the man." Booker T. Washington
"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill
"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth." Abraham Lincoln
"Hope is no basis for a defense policy." Margaret Thatcher
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." Booker T. Washington
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Frederick Douglass
“Bad men cannot make good citizens." Patrick Henry
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." Booker T. Washington
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master." Abraham Lincoln
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." George Washington
"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." Calvin Coolidge
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free." Abraham Lincoln
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Margaret Thatcher
"I don't care who you are, I care who you want to be." Newt Gingrich
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." Theodore Roosevelt
“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face” Thomas Sowell
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Winston Churchill
"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance." Calvin Coolidge
"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." Margaret Thatcher
"It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." Patrick Henry
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." Ronald Reagan
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." George W. Bush
"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." Ronald Reagan
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." Calvin Coolidge
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." Booker T. Washington
"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name." Theodore Roosevelt
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington
"The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." Ronald Reagan
"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln
"The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world." George W. Bush
"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." Ronald Reagan
"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals." George Washington
"We are the richest society in history, and that's why dreams matter." Newt Gingrich
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." Theodore Roosevelt
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others." Winston Churchill
"The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people." Alan Keyes
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." Calvin Coolidge
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." Theodore Roosevelt
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace." George Washington
"In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves." Walter E. Williams
"Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God." Alan Keyes
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” Newt Gingrich
"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric." Thomas Sowell
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill
"Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights." Walter E. Williams
"I believe all these things because freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world." George W. Bush
This will be the Wellstone of all Inaugurals
I think I’ll just plunge into a state of denial over the next few days. ;-)
Here's a good one. In the schools in Plano Texas they are allowing all the kids out of class to see this “historic” inauguration. Never done before, but when you're dealing with special people things change.
Five Lincoln quotes, and not a single one from Jefferson. That’s a glaring glitch, don’t ya’ think ?
Besides, Obama and his acolytes have co-opted Lincoln all for themselves which, to be frank, has a terrific synchronicity.
Patton like Teddy Roosevelt or even Thomas Jefferson would be unpalatable for the masses today. Norman Rockwell is dead in more than one way.
Thanks very much for posting this, Pharmboy.
Thnaks for this.. I am printing and bookmarking this.
I emailed this to my children also...
The quote that the Marxist 0bama should heed is
“ As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”
Lincoln
But of course we know he is selective.
Good point. I guess everyone’s got an agenda...even those on our side.
The elegance of the maxim stands astride the hubris of the idiom...
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell
Remember, It took a Jimmy Carter to bring us a Ronald Reagan.
I suggest everyone watch Terminator 3 on Tuesday night. The ending is quite timely, I believe.
Thanks, bookmarking and printing to read while I ignore all media (except FR) the next few days.
There is a glaring omission, a conspicuous absence if you will; where is a stirring quote from Barack Hussein Obama?
Prior: We are beacons on the road to enlightenment.
Cameron Mitchell: No, you’re dark-side intergalactic encyclopedia salesmen. Unfortunately, the home office hasn’t been quite upfront with you.
Dr. Daniel Jackson, Ph.D.: Nice work on the metaphor.
Cameron Mitchell: Thank you.
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