Posted on 04/05/2005 2:22:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
VANITY NOTICE: I've just learned that I am an "EXTREMIST!" WOO HOO!!
Nicest compliment I've received in a long time.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Y'all might want to be careful who you hang out with. If you are pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-constitution, pro-Liberty, pro-America and post to FreeRepublic.com, you risk being labeled as an "extremist."
That puts you in the company of extremist folks like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, & Co.
As extremists, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Speaking of quotes from our extremist forefathers, someone sent me these this morning:
George Washington - "..And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion... Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle."
John Adams - "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
James Madison - "We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future ...upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."
Noah Webster - "No truth is more evident to any mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
See you at the March for Justice!!
May God continue to bless and watch over America and all her extremists!
I like it too. :-D
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." --Thomas Jefferson
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." --Thomas Jefferson
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." --Thomas Jefferson
"All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!" --Thomas Jefferson
"Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it" --Benjamin Franklin
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." --Aesop
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." --Benjamin Disraeli
:^D
One of my all time favorites.
Here's another one:
“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.”
General George S. Patton
No, but she was capable of laughing at her dad's jokes and responding to requests and greeting her mom with a smile.
I'm surprised it's survived this long.
I was going to ask if I could use it in my tagline, but now that you said that well, I'm not so sure......
Great post anyway :)
I'd say we're in good company then, Jim!
Extremist? Excentric? I've been called worse! AND frankly I don't give a ^#*@*@*@!
I am who I am!
Wow! It only took 17 posts for one of the members of the WPPFF to chime in! Lovely./sarcasm
"I consider the term 'extremism' to be a word deliberately chosen for its vagueness and used by intellectual slobs who are too desperate, sneaky or lazy to say exactly what they mean. Its only purpose is to deliberately try to confuse the difference between people who are extremely good (usually because of devotion to their principles) with people who are extremely bad. The sleazeballs who use this supposedly scary, yet undefined word are not only trying to smear people of conviction and integrity, but they're also trying to divert attention away from the fact that they are obviously not people of principle themselves." -- Rick Gaber"If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity." -- Ayn Rand in " 'Extremism' or The Art of Smearing", Chapter 17 of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Karl Hess and Barry Goldwater
"A moderate is either someone who has no moral code of his own, or if he does, then he's someone who doesn't have the guts to take sides between good and evil." – Rick Gaber
"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." --Ayn Rand
"In matters of principle, stand like a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson
"I suppose people who vilify those who make judgments on a moral basis (instead of, or in addition to, a simply legal one) are the 'moral relativists' who believe it's really bad, even evil, to make moral judgments." -- Bert Rand
Pro-freedom does it for me.
That puts you in the company of extremist folks like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, & Co.
The exception proves the rule? They don't to my ken, post to Free Republic and please remember that these sterling fellows accepted slavery as a fact of life, and prevented women from exercising their right to vote among a few other ancient cultural norms.
Strict constitutionalists should remember these little caveats.
Well, since she was capable at some point during the past 15 years of responding, someone should have just ASKED HER if she wanted to die! If she could open her eyes upon request, as shown in this video, http://web.tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/Terri_Big_Eyes.rm, she could certainly answer a yes or no question and SPEAK FOR HERSELF rather than rely on her estranged husband who had taken up with another woman to decide.
They posted on Free Republic? Wow! Who'da thought?
One of his worst quotes, but revealing.
He revelled in the blood spilled by extremists during the French Rev, and rationalized the slaughter of innocents in that liberty-tree-growing context.
Or perhaps a and b. In any case, it was clearly wrong to take her life if there was any chance that the judge had "screwed up" or the law was "faulty." Either executive should have stepped in and called a halt. The governor and the president both thought it was wrong to order her death and so did the congress. IMHO, the correct thing for the government to do would've been to spare her life and then allow the legislative branches at both the state and federal levels ample time to fix the law. No harm would've been done by sparing her life.
BTTT. Great post.
"IMHO, the correct thing for the government to do would've been to spare her life and then allow the legislative branches at both the state and federal levels ample time to fix the law. No harm would've been done by sparing her life."
Exactly right, Jim, my fellow extremist.
A carefully edited video showing what all the credible experts who have examined TS have determined is nothing more than a coincidence.
Videos like this show the 0.01% of the time where TS's random autonomic responses coincide with what she is asked to do. These videos don't show the vast majority of times when her responses in no way jibe with what she is being asked to do.
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