Posted on 02/20/2004 10:56:25 PM PST by april15Bendovr
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
The 7 Modern Sins: Politics without principles, Pleasures without conscience, Wealth without work, Knowledge without character, Industry without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice. - Canon Frederic Donaldson
It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. - George Bernard Shaw
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth. - Sydney J. Harris
An atheist's most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful for something, but can't think of anybody to thank for it. - Mary Ann Vincent.
Some people treat God like they do a lawyer; they go to Him only when they are in trouble. - Anonymous
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. - General George S. Patton
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." Robert Hughes
"In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does. " Robert C. Goizueta
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."General George Smith Patton, Jr.
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." Douglas Macarthur
"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." Winston Churchill
"Although at the moment they may be equal in their lack of a real answer, the man who replies "I'll find out," is much more valuable to his employer, his neighbor, and to himself than the man who replies "l don't know." Anonymous
"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." Calvin Coolidge
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"That which does not kill me, makes me stronger." SEAL Team saying
"Where there is no shame, there is no honor." African Proverb
"In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
Liberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it. Dennis Miller
"And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?" -- Dennis Miller on Hannity & Colmes.
"I'm not a politician," She says evenly. "If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know and love, is a fantastic actress. It's her right as an American to say whatever she wants. [But] just because you're rich and famous doesn't qualify you to make political statements. I don't put my opinions out there to influence people. You have alot of influence. And sometimes I feel it's undeserved influence." Reese Witherspoon
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." Robin Williams (on Clinton/Lewinsky affair)
"Here the country had finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don't want to fight it. They would have, except it would put them on the same side as the United States." Ann Coulter-
"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now." Ann Coulter
C-Span debate monitored by Leon Panetta between Bill O’Reilly versus James Carville. What will Bill Clinton do with the rest of his life besides golf? Want a crack at that, James? James Carville replies I don’t know. I always wind up talking about him. I told somebody---I said defending President Clinton is like being in the Mafia, you just can’t get out of the thing. I’m the Michael Corleone. How do I get out of this business. Bill O’Reilly states Can I just say one thing? Really, this whole event has been worth it to hear James Carville admit he’s been involved in organized crime for the past eight years.
Don’t go around stating the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. Mark Twain
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but to be fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought. Margret Chase Smith
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, Walks like Jane and smells like a Cheetah. Ronald Reagan
Political Correctness, what does it mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can’t be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on American campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who’re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to suppression? Lets be honest who thinks professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. Charlton Hestons speech at Harvard Law School (Winning The Culture War)
The modern definition of the word “Hate and Racist” is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal. Unknown Author
Republicans believe that every day is the fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight Eisenhower
America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance. Jay Severin
Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion. Fred Barnes
Men who have offered their lives for their country know that patriotism is not the fear of something, it is the love of something. Adlai Stevenson
Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease. Spiro Agnew
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself on our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. John Wayne
Success is not final, Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Sir Winston Churchill
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brain. Sir Winston Churchill
The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time Vince Lombardi
Put your hands on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That is relativity Albert Einstein
Political Correctness is just Tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston
“President Clinton Boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady law rules. The Brady law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You Know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete’s sake…” Charlton Heston
“When you see all the rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I’d follow the example of their nominee; Bill Clinton don’t inhale (1992 GOP convention) Ronald Reagan
“The governments view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves ,tax it. If it keeps on moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.” Ronald Reagan
“The Beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it.” Thomas Jefferson
“ Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 46 243-244
“Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy.” P.J. O’Rourke
“Please do not feed the squirrels. If you feed the squirrels, they’ll become overweight, and prone to disease. Their population will grow, and they’ll lose their ability to forage for food on their own. They will expect you to feed them and will attack you if you don’t. They’ll become like little welfare recipients, and you wouldn’t want to do this to them.” Sign reported by Clifford F. Thies in Rocky Mountain National Park
Welcome to the Politically Correct Sates of America. Please turn your mind in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to you once we’ve decided what you can think. Unknown Author
“The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years…. The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.” Dick Armey
The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and the statesman thinks of the next generation. James Freeman Clarke
Communism is like prohibition. It’s a nice idea, but it won’t work. Will Rogers
A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. Woodrow Wilson
There are no friends at cards or world politics. Finley Peter Dunne
Only if the’re coming to endorse my opponent. Don Johnson Democrat from Tennessee when asked if he wanted the Clintons to campaign for him.
Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They’re all running for the Presidency. Bob Hope 1988
Not with this President. Donna Shalala, health and human service secretary under Bill Clinton, on the suggestion of a tax on junk food.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot. George Orwell
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marks
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. Mark Twain
Fox News Alan Colmes: ... and so far we have not found that smoking gun of WMD. Dennis Miller replies: Well, you know, anybody who doesn't believe they have chemical weapons over there should should have to go over and take a sip out of the Tigris River in the first place. History- Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after it has happened; but it is only the wise man who knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable. Sir Winston Churchill
"The United Nations gun-grabbers don't care about our Constitution and they don't care about national sovereignty. The UN always wants to expand its power, and global gun control goes hand-in-hand with global government. Every American who cares about the 2nd Amendment should oppose this latest UN attempt to dictate our domestic laws. There is no question that the UN ultimately seeks to impose worldwide gun control, although it has no legal or moral authority to do so."
" This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the Commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.
When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon."
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken....There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens?
What's there in that for anyone?
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
“Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hand of the people.”
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, unalterable through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."
“Those who give up their freedom to save their property, shall ultimately lose both!”
"In every country where man is free to think and to speak, differences of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently and leaving our horizon more bright and serene."
"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. ... It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression...that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; ...working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped. ... The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our Constitution from a coordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone."
“Those who give up their freedom to save their property, shall ultimately lose both!”
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...we [will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent ...till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery. And the foreshores of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”
"Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible."
"...as I'm suppose to do but as some folks forget to do these days, I'll offer you as well an admonition. An admonition is a piece of advice that comes in the form of a warning. And this one someone offered to me early in my career in government. And I thank God that I never forgot it because if I had, I would have probably lost myself long ago.
We have to go out in this world, and you can sell your talent, you can sell your knowledge. You can sell your time and you can sell your labor. You will be bought and sold on the auction block of many different marketplaces where all of these things will be toted up and valued by others and you eventually too will be the judge. But if you are going to follow my advice today and remember nothing else then just remember this.
There's not a single thing on offer in this all too temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
Hold on to this. Be true to that in you which if you are willing to respect its truth, will not fail, will never desert, and will in the end, not turn into dust even when you have shuffled off this mortal coil. For I think that there is a light in us, a little spark of God's divinity. And if we husband and shelter its truth then we can make it into a light that glows beyond the edges of this time, to light a path to others, in our families, in our nation, in the world. But also to be a light whose spreading ripples in the voids of time we cannot calculate and whose ultimate fate we do not know.
In some sense, I think, this is a home we can build for our humanity that lasts beyond anything else we can hope for. Be true to that little promise of it that you have and come what may, your life will be, in your own eyes and in the eyes of God, the success you hope for."
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is not virtue!"
"A national ID card -- complete with an encoded computer chip and biometric 'tags' such as fingerprints or retinal scans -- came one step closer to becoming a creepy reality ... when Reps. James P. Moran and Thomas M. Davis introduced legislation that would require their adoption by all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
... Their bill would give the federal government unprecedented access to information about our daily lives that ought to frighten any sensible person.
Every transaction we make, every trip we take, every time we produce a driver's license to conduct business would be noted and recorded in a government database. And with the national ID 'smart card' almost certainly being linked -- at first, or after Americans get used to the idea -- to our financial lives in every critical respect (checking accounts, credit cards, etc.) there won't be anything the government, its myriad agencies and even private-sector contractors, won't know about us except our never-voiced thoughts -- the last realm of privacy that may be left to Americans a decade from now. ... What Messrs. Moran and Davis have proposed is, in fact, 'a system that will erode individual freedom and increase governmental power without significantly improving safety,' as Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Center puts it.
He and other civil libertarians ridicule the government's straw man -- that a national ID will prevent future terrorist attacks. They argue, convincingly, that well-funded criminals and would-be terrorists will always find a way to get around such a system. Only the average citizen would find himself under the ever-present watchful eye of government.
As with gun control, the national ID will result in diminished freedom and privacy for law-abiding citizens who pose no threat to honest government but are objects of these ever escalating, police-state tactics.
The national ID card is a terrible idea, perhaps born of good intentions -- which should nonetheless be dropped before we get more than we bargained for."
"But with the adoption of the income-tax amendment in 1913, the amount of money people retained as their own became totally subject to the will of the government. Congress might set the percentage high or low, but that wasn't really the point. The point was that by granting public officials the unfettered power to determine the percentage of income tax, government became the determiner of how much of their income people would be permitted to keep.
The Sixteenth Amendment effectively nationalized people's income and placed them on a government allowance."
"And He said, "Woe unto you also ye lawyers, for ye lade men with burdens to grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burden with one of your fingers."
"Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered."
"Every legislator, every doctor, and every citizen needs to recognize that the real issue is whether to affirm and protect the sanctity of all human life, or to embrace a social ethic where some human lives are valued and others are not. As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the 'quality of life' ethic."
"I see creeping fascism in America, just as in Germany, a drip at a time: a law here, a law there, all supposedly passed to protect the public. The German people really believed that only hoodlums owned such unregistered guns.
What fools we were. It truly frightens me to see how the government, media, and some police groups in America are pushing for the same mind-set."
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."
“The United Nations is the Greatest Fraud in all History It's Purpose is to Destroy the United States.”
"The militia is the dread of tyrants and the guard of freemen."
"If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of a host of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle!
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
"If the jury' does not judge the law, the facts, and ALL of the evidence, then they are merely the tools, rather than the barrier against the tyranny and oppression of the government.”
It is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but it is also their right and their primary and paramount duty, to judge of the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of such laws.”
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself...they are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence."
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes."
His answer:
"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to simply arrange the meeting."
Please let me know if you do find it... I'll occasionally look myself to no avail.
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
--Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
--John Philpot Curran
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.
--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.
--John Wayne
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
--Woody Guthrie
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, is the destruction of the truth.
--William Jefferson Clinton
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized...I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
--Gaius Petronius (~27-66 A.D.)
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned.
--Thomas Jefferson
Some of the most elaborate solutions do nothing to improve productivity.
--Unknown
Nothing in the world can take
The place of Persistence.
Talent will not; Nothing is more
Common than unsuccessful
Men with talent; Genius will not;
Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education alone will not;
The world is full
of educated derelicts.
Persistence and Determination
Alone are omnipotent.
--Calvin Coolidge
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm..
--Vince Lombardi
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
--Jonathan Swift
Relax. Don't worry. Have a homebrew.
--Charlie Papazian
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin
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