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The latest installment of quotations for freepers from Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America,. Quotes compiled and organized by yours truly. Regards and enjoy - PsyOp. Author and text: Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835. AMBITION The sentiment of ambition is universal, but the scope of ambition is seldom vast. - De Tocqueville. AMERICA. In the United States, as soon as a man has acquired some education and pecuniary resources, he either endeavors to get rich by commerce or industry, or he buys land in the bush and turns pioneer. All that he asks of the state is, not...

Some relevant observations on the all consuming conflict in the Middle East. In no particular order. We are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Loony Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich. - Ronald Reagan, New York Times. July 9, 1985. One country may support another's cause, but will never take it so seriously as its own. - Karl von Clauswitz. His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors...

A few things to think about on tax day. We have always understood it to be a grand and fundamental principle of the constitution that no freeman should be subject to any tax to which he has not given his own consent, in person or by proxy. - John Adams, opposition to the Stamp Act. 1765. It is also in the interest of a tyrant to keep his subjects poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Their country is under bombardment and their nation under siege, but the Afghan national cricket team turned up here on schedule to play in a Pakistani tournament beginning Monday, strolling onto a dusty playing field in the town of Peshawar in their pressed white uniforms as though there were nothing more important in the world than the game ahead. It is a reflection of the importance of cricket in Afghanistan that the team was allowed to come at all for the first match of the trophy contest against local club Nowshera. Afghan team captain Allah Dad Noori, ...

<p>This celebration of suicide bombers at one of the largest universities on the West Bank should alarm us. The display is intended to encourage youths to join up and sacrifice themselves in the glorious cause.</p> <p>It will probably be not all that long a journey for some young zealot from stepping on an American flag to carrying out a suicide bombing against an American target.</p>

BEYOND THE GATE: TERRORISTS WIN IF AMERICA FAILS TO USE ITs POWER By Michael Medved No, it's not an overreaction - but we need to prepare a persuasive response to inevitable questions about the vast scope of America's response to terror. 'Watching the President speak to both houses of Congress, seeing the deployment of the most powerful war machine ever created, I couldn't help but think that history will laugh at us,' wrote one distressed listener to my radio program. 'Nineteen people commit suicide one September morning and take thousands of innocent victims with them. But what if it was ...

911 - A Call To Arms. September 11, 2001, is a day that will live in infamy. Less than 48 hours after the worst terrorist attack in history, it almost seems cliched to say it. Not because it isn’t true. Not because it was said of another attack nearly 60 years ago. But, because it fails to fully convey the enormity of the assault. It fails to adequately count the horrors we witnessed that day. And it fails to express the full measure of outrage every American now feels burning in their chest. It was a day of enormous infamy, ...

911 - A Call To Arms. September 11, 2001, is a day that will live in infamy. Less than 48 hours after the worst terrorist attack in history, it almost seems cliched to say it. Not because it isn’t true. Not because it was said of another attack nearly 60 years ago. But, because it fails to fully convey the enormity of the assault. It fails to adequately count the horrors we witnessed that day. And it fails to express the full measure of outrage every American now feels burning in their chest. It was a day of enormous infamy, ...

It's been a hell of a year in Seattle. An earthquake swayed The Space Needle, The Seattle Times struggled through a 49-day strike, and, believe it or not, the ordinarily soggy city experienced a prolonged drought. But on a late March afternoon things are looking up, at least for Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen. Rain is pelting his office windows, returned strikers are hard at work in his newsroom, and, best of all, Blethen is on the verge of completing his personal, six-year crusade to repeal the federal estate tax. Eliminating the 85-year-old tax on cash and assets that can ...