“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short
again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings;
but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm,
the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows
in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails,
at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
-Benjamin Franklin
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."
-Ronald Reagan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
“Life is tough. It’s even tougher when you’re stupid.”
-John Wayne
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."
-Thomas Paine (Rights of Man, 1791)
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
"I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.
-William F. Buckley Jr.
Cicero observed, "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gate is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself…he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country, by scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us: thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."
-Thomas Jefferson
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-John Stuart Mill
"The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem."
-Ronald Reagan
"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."
-William Penn
“It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden, and those
who have not swords can still die upon them.”
-The Return of the King
"There’s been claims that we’ve been hooking jumper-cables to the balls of terrorists to get them to talk. My view is if it’ll save the life of even one of our troops, red goes to positive, black to negative."
-Dennis Miller
"America is not at war. The Marines are at war. America is at the mall."
-USMC graffiti in Iraq
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“The entire modern world owes its existence to capitalism. Marxism isn’t just a dead end, it’s the road back to mud huts.”
“The modern liberal will invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.”
-Evan Sayet
"In the beginning a patriot is a scarce man: hated, feared & scorned; but in time, when his cause succeeds, the timid join them, because then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
–Mark Twain
"We dare not shirk our responsibility to keep America free, secure, and at peace."
-Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1984.
"America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally."
-Ronald Reagan, Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1985.
"We must restore America's ability to defend itself and fulfill its responsibilities
as a trustee of freedom and peace in the world..."
-President Ronald Reagan, Radio Address to the Nation on Administration Policies,
August 25, 1984.
"There must be no wavering by us, nor any doubts by others, that America will
meet her responsibilities to remain free, secure, and at peace."
-Ronald Reagan, Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1985.
"My fellow citizens, our Nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we
know is right and do it with all our might. Let history say of us, "These
were golden years—when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom
gained new life, when America reached for her best."
-Ronald Reagan, Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1985.
"So, let me today speak for a united people. Let me say simply: We're Americans. We love this country. We love what she stands for, and we will always defend her.... We live for freedom -- our own, our children's -- and we will always stand ready to sacrifice for that freedom."
-President Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the American Bar Association, July 8, 1985.
"How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve
this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country,
hope for our future, after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen, we cannot,
must not, and will not turn back. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans."
-Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1984.
Profits are a dirty word on the campaign trail. Hillary and Obama, who blame
American corporations for most every problem under the sun, want to tax profits
heavily. With ExxonMobil and other oil companies reporting strong earnings,
Democrats are now calling for a windfall profits tax. Last time we tried that
— under Jimmy Carter — foreign energy imports rose 8 to 16 percent
and domestic energy production fell 3 to 6 percent. (This according top a study
by the Congressional Research Service.)
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDM0OGU3Nzk0MTMyMGI3NTU1Y2JmYWVhOWU3OTU4ZGQ=
In Casey's first year in office, he voted in favor of an amendment to a foreign appropriations bill introduced by the fanatically pro-abortion Barbara Boxer that overturned U.S. policy against providing taxpayer money to groups that perform abortions overseas. It also granted overseas abortion providers taxpayer money. There's a "pro-life Democrat" for you.
"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1) Those who fear and distrust the people... 2) Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe... depository of the public interest."
-Thomas Jefferson
Dumb, dumb, dumb:
Fixxty
Stupid f$%kwitted americans. The CIA masterminded the toppling of Iran’s
first democratically elected government and installed and sponsored the Shah
of Iran who turned out to be one of the most brutal dictators the middle east
has ever seen. After this tyrant was deposed by the Iranian people, the USA
aided and abetted Saddam Hussein in an 8 year war with Iran in which 2 million
people died – some by chemical weapons supplied by the West! Haven’t
enough innocent people died from USA’s reckless meddling.
-YouTube Video comment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
"Animals fight for survival, but why should we?"
Eric Hufschmid, 19 April 2008
We let her, and people like her, vote?
"I didn't follow politics ever," she conceded. "It was the only
class in school I really almost didn't pass, the government side of things.
I don't understand the branches and whatever. I was never interested in it.
I do think I'm more interested now because the candidates are doing things for
the younger generation, like going on 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff."
-Danica Patrick
Or her?
I found a link from August of last year showing that Vanessa Carlton is a supporter
of Democrats. She wrote the message on her own messageboard.
From http://www.vanessacarlton.com/bboard/forumname/viewtopic.asp?topicID=1504369
"I hope you guys (over 18) have registered to vote!!! if you haven't,
go to rockthevote.com.....that website will show you the light. if you all vote
kerry, I'll give you invisible cheek kisses. all of us together have the power
to improve and change our government (which could make our lives a whole hell
of a lot better.....health insurance anyone?) anyway, can't wait for you all
to hear the record!!
peace
v"
And they call us fascists...
According to Stern, Acorn’s radical agenda sometimes shifts toward “undisguised
authoritarian socialism.” Fully aware of its living-wage campaign’s
tendency to drive businesses out of cities, Acorn hopes to force companies that
want to move to obtain “exit visas.” “How much longer before
Acorn calls for exit visas for wealthy or middle-class individuals before they
can leave a city?” asks Stern, adding, “This is the road to serfdom
indeed.”
Obama and Acorn:
Acorn’s tactics are famously “in your face.” Just think of
Code Pink’s well-known operations (threatening to occupy congressional
offices, interrupting the testimony of General David Petraeus) and you’ll
get the idea. Acorn protesters have disrupted Federal Reserve hearings, but
mostly deploy their aggressive tactics locally. Chicago is home to one of its
strongest chapters, and Acorn has burst into a closed city council meeting there.
Acorn protestors in Baltimore disrupted a bankers’ dinner and sent four
busloads of profanity-screaming protestors against the mayor’s home, terrifying
his wife and kids. Even a Baltimore city council member who generally supports
Acorn said their intimidation tactics had crossed the line.
Kate Kendell, executive director of the San Francisco-based National Center
for Lesbian Rights, said gay marriage advocates have already launched a campaign
to defeat the measure.
"There is just so much at stake, now, in terms of what kind of state we
are going to live in and what values we are going to uphold," Kendell said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24939738/
-Gay marriage ban qualifies for California ballot
Uncle Tom is a pejorative for an African American who is perceived
by others as behaving in a subservient manner to White American authority figures,
or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation.
Uncle Tyrel is a pejorative for a European American who is
perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to Non-White American
race-baiters, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation.
"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?"
-Paul Harvey
Pay for my kids to go to college to learn this?
"Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated as Pomo or PoMo) is a term used in a variety
of contexts to describe social conditions, movements in the arts, economic and
social conditions and scholarship from the perspective that there is a definable
and differentiable period after the modern, or that the 20th century can be
divided into two broad periods. This idea has been extremely controversial and
difficult to define among scholars, intellectuals, and historians, largely because,
to many of these commentators, the term postmodernism implies that the modern
historical period has passed, a notion which they resist.
It is generally accepted that postmodern ideas have influenced philosophy and
art, expanded the importance of critical theory, and been the point of departure
for works of literature, architecture, and design, as well as being visible
in marketing/business and the interpretation of history, law and culture, starting
in the late 20th century."
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
It only takes a second to dial 911; it could take the rest of your life for help to arrive...
I challenge these so-called "peace-activists" to organize JUST ONE MAJOR D.C. PROTEST AGAINST AL QUEDA by the end of 2007...
In “The Roots of the Ultra Left,” you’ll hear the “Leftist
wisdom” from such enlightened sources as fanatical protesters, elitist
academics, and the Clintons. A total of 35 liberal beliefs are addressed, including:
Profit comes from evil greed!
Traditional morality is always bad!
Make God illegal!
Stamp out liberty! It’s unfair!
Rewrite history or stop teaching it!
Save the environment! Kill off all the people!
When judges give us what we want, forget the laws and Constitution!
America causes all world problems!
Eliminate patriotism!
Bring on world government!
And more ideology that will make your blood boil . . .
Finding the biggest B$#%& on a ship of 5,000 is hard work – Congrats
London Times:
“To be honest, I think it’s a crock of s***... People talk about
it all the time around here [on this US aircraft carrier]. They think this is
all bulls***. Nobody really wants to go to war. I’m getting out of the
Navy as soon as I can. My Mom’s really nervous. I’m just out of
high school and now I’m off to fight a war. I wanted to go to college,
but my family didn’t have enough money."
Female Sailor on 90,000-ton USS Nimitz
Crew prefer Super Bowl to [Bush's] speeches
London Times, 30 January 2003
"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it
is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
-George Orwell
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably
from people who are not fighting."
-George Orwell
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind
simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
-George Orwell
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act."
-George Orwell
"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
-George Orwell
"For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important
than emotional sincerity."
-George Orwell
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they
do not want to hear."
-George Orwell
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues
are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly,
hatred and schizophrenia."
-George Orwell
"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible."
-George Orwell
"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are
praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that
it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it
were tied down to any one meaning."
-George Orwell
"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
-George Orwell
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
-George Orwell
"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life
is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise."
-George Orwell
"One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult,
but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return."
-George Orwell
"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite
all the time."
-George Orwell
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand
ready to do violence on their behalf."
-George Orwell
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."
-George Orwell
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that
he is already degraded."
-George Orwell
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his
own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
-George Orwell
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
-George Orwell
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe
in them."
-George Orwell
"There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins.
Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more
or less for reaction."
-George Orwell
"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."
-George Orwell
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first
duty of intelligent men."
-George Orwell
"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself,
who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
-George Orwell
"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'"
-George Orwell
"Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government."
-Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
When you're a target of Islam, every week is Islam Awareness Week.
"We're all sinners, but jerks revel in their sins."
-P.J. O'Rourke
Let's get the Insurrection started, already....
"I hate newspapermen.....I regard them as spies.....If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."
-Gen. William T. Sherman
"It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
"I want to take those profits."
-Hillary Clinton
