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Quote of the...well since the last time I added One...
"During my service in the United States Congress,
I took the initiative in creating the Internet. " -- Al Gore (how does the man keep his legs together? ed)
"I am pleased to sign into law ... the reauthorization of the Independent Counsel Act. This law ... is a foundation stone for the trust between the government and our citizens. ... Opponents
called it a tool of partisan attack against Republican presidents and a waste of taxpayer funds. It was neither. In fact, the independent counsel statute has been in the past and is today a
force for government integrity and public confidence." --Bill Clinton, June 30, 1994.
"Christianity is our foe. If the animal rights movement is to succeed, we must first destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition." --Peter Singer, "The
Father of Animal Rights"
"I believe there are more instances of the freedoms of the people being abridged through gradual and silent encroachments by those in power, than by
violent and sudden usurpation." --James Madison, during the Virginia Convention on Ratification of the U.S. Constitution, June 16, 1788
"The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power." --Douglass MacArthur
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." --General Charles de Gaulle
"Taking my guns away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell, 'fire!' in a crowded theater." --Anonymous
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." --Tacitus
"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put
out a fire, what do you replace it with?" --Thomas Sowell
"The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals." --Rush Limbaugh
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." --Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Party Presidential
Candidate
"A communist is a man who has nothing, and wishes to share it with the world." --Anonymous
"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it,
adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency." --Pope John Paul I
"I still believe there is not a man in this country that can't make a living for himself and his family. But he can't make a living for them and his
government, too. Not the way this government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheaply as the people do." --Will Rogers
"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf." --Will Rogers
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can´t find them, make them."
--George Bernard Shaw
"No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity." --Rush Limbaugh
"We reject the idea of private property." --Peter Berle, President of the National Audubon Society
"We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing--in terms of economic policy
and environmental policy." --Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." --Ronald Reagan
"Schools are overrun with drugs, violence, guns, rape, murder, and now even mass murder. It seems America´s schools have everything...except
prayer...The Constitution never, ever intended to ban school prayer and never intended to separate God and the American people." --Rep. James
Traficant
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." --Thomas
Jefferson
"I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce
abortion." --Hippocrates, from the original Hippocratic Oath
"The more that is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase." --Leo Tolstoy, Help for
the Starving, Part II; January, 1892
"Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it."
--Rush Limbaugh
"Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper." --Florence King
"Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most
forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things." --Leo Strauss
"They want timid, helpless people who are anxious to get in touch with their inner child, enter twelve-step programs, and run to the government with
every little problem." --Clark Stooksbury
"The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going." --Florence King
"Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn'...has a bias against African-Americans. And Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'...has an economic bias. It characterizes
people based on their class." --San Francisco school board member Dan Kelly, arguing that 70% of school reading should consist of works written by
"authors of color"
"Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, and destroy their ruggedness. Get control of all
means of publicity, and thereby get the peoples' mind off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other
trivialities. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance." --Vladimir Ilich Lenin
“The vote today was not an acquittal. At best it was a hung jury.”
- Nevada Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, Carson City Lincoln Day Dinner,
2/12/99
Definition of "bipartisanship":
If the Democrats are in the majority, it is when the minority agrees with the majority.
If the Democrats are in the minority, it is when the majority agrees with the minority."
--Old Lloyd
"The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of. . .older men who prey on underage women. . .There are consequences to decisions and. . .one way or another, people always wind up being held accountable."
-Bill Clinton, June 13, 1996, in a speech endorsing a national effort
against teen pregnancy (As quoted in U.S. News and World Report)
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in
a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King (1929-68), speech in Washington, August 27,
1963
"For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong." --Henry Louis Mencken
"Well you'd find me face up in a pool of blood with my wife standing over me and asking, 'How in the hell do I reload this damn thing'" -- Dick Armey, when asked his wife's response if he were caught in the same situation as Bill Clinton.
"My father, Ronald Reagan, held the
presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such
disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical
administration in history'." -- Michael Reagan
"My friends, some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty and poverty won." - Ronald Reagan...January 25, 1988
"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." -Unknown
"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to OVERTHROW THE MEN
WHO PERVERT THE CONSTITUTION." -Abraham Lincoln
"Every mighty oak was once just a nut who stood his ground." -Unknown
"1935 will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and
the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolf Hitler, 1935.
"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country!
Common sense wins out. I'm just sothrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough." -Sarah Brady, 1 July
1988
The Best Economy in 30 Years? "Pummeled by a 35% plunge in the aircraft sector, orders for durable goods dropped 2.5 % in February, the
biggest decline in 10 months." -The Wall Street Journal, 3/28/96
"Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that
mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater." -David Letterman
"I'm not sure what he meant. His words are subject to multiple interpretations."--Dem. Rep. Pete Geren on Clinton (Dallas Morning News, 1/26/94)
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."--Brooke Shields
"Outside of the killings, Washington (DC) has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington DC
"It might surprise you to know that I think I raised them [taxes] too much, too."--Bill Clinton 10/17/95
"His [Clinton's] approval ratings are about 50 percent now. If they get up to 60 percent, his people tell me Bill can start dating again,"--South
Carolina Democratic Sen. Fritz Hollings
"Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country."--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Lest we forget JFK was a Democrat,
my how things change!)
Heckler: "Who pulls your strings, Bill? What special interests control you?"Clinton (visibly upset): "You leave Hillary out of this!"
"[the United States] can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."--President William Jefferson Clinton, March 1,
1993 during a press conference in Piscataway, NJ source: Boston Globe, 3/2/93, page 3
"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."--President William Jefferson Clinton 5/29/93
"I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco..."--P.J. O'Rourke
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."--President William Jefferson Clinton,USA TODAY 11 Mar 93
NRA life member John F.Kennedy was shot by ACLU member Lee Harvey Oswald
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."--Barry Goldwater.
"...African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do."--President William Jefferson Clinton on Black Entertainment
Television, November 2, 1994
"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad" -Henry Kissinger
"When the government fears the People, that is Liberty. When the People fear the Government, that is tyranny." -Thomas Jefferson
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -Thomas Jefferson
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -George Bernard Shaw
"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the
publicity. But then, we elected them!" -Lily Tomlin
Duty is ours; results are God's.
-John Quincy Adams
Aim at heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you
will get neither.
-C. S. Lewis
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with
human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
-John Adams
Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-John Adams
The only foundation for ... a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without
this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty,
and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
-Benjamin Rush
We will never come to grips with the problems of our cities ... until a
white person can talk about the epidemic of minority illegitemacy, drug
addiction and homicide without being called a racist.
-Sen. Bill Bradley
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk
down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery --
then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
-Jesse Jackson
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the
function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and
enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our
midst. We castrate and bid the gelding be fruitful.
-C. S. Lewis
Being possed by Jesus creates a spontaneity and joy that sends you
bursting forth on the world as a fun person!!
-Anthony Campolo
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionists. Then they came
for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was protestant. Then
they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
--Martin Niemoller
They that deny God destroy man's nobility; for certainly, man is akin to
the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is
a base and ignoble creature.
--Francis Bacon
[Voicing opposition to the abolition of the slave trade] Things have come
to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade public life.
--Lord Melbourne
The greatest question of our time is not communism versus
individualism, not Europe versus America, not even the East versus the
West; it is whether men can live without God.
--Will Durant
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
--Daniel Webster
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a
fact about improvements.
-C. S. Lewis
True worth is in BEING, not SEEMING. -Alice Cary
Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk; and so
they are gone to milk the bull.
-David Hume
To hell with the news! I'm no longer interested in the news. I'm interested
in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth.
We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.
-Ben Bradlee, Editor, Washington Post
Liberals take our money, indoctrinate our kids, violate parental rights, trample freedom of faith, make us validate their morality and then have the unmitigated gall to whine that the religious right wants to force its values on the nation. -Don Feder
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher. -Thomas Paine
The Best Economy in 30 Years? "Pummeled by a 35% plunge in the aircraft sector, orders for durable goods dropped 2.5 % in February, the
biggest decline in 10 months." --The Wall Street Journal, 3/28/96
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." -- Henry Van Dyke
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H. L. Mencken
"Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you realize that?"--Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), Esquire Magazine, January 1996
We can afford to differ on the currency, the tariff, and foreign policy; but we cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we
expect our republic permanently to endure. - Theodore Roosevelt
"Each generation hopes their children will have more freedom and economic opportunity.
"I am concerned about the future of our youth, compared to my generation." - Michael Hodges..the Grandfather report
"If you can't get people to listen any other way, tell them it's confidential." -- Farmer's Digest
"There, I guess King George will be able to read that!"
--John Hancock, on signing the Declaration of Independence
"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." --Wernher Von Braun.
"I like pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals."
--Winston Churchill ]
Law of Probability Dispersal--
"Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed." -- Piney
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
-- Gore Vidal
The Ten Cannots
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
--Rev. William John Henry Boetcker, 1873
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." -- Margaret Thatcher
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." -- Ronald Reagan
" Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel ." -- H. L. MENCKEN
"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion,
and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well
disciplined ." --
T.S. ELIOT
"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."
BERTRAND RUSSELL
"Those who cannot think for themselves are emotionally unequipped to spend time alone ." --ANONYMOUS
"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false." -- PAUL VALÉRY
"There was a day when American statesmen would not speak ill of their country on foreign soil. Jimmy Carter ended that when he disparaged President Reagan while abroad in the 1980's. But Carter was only disparaging a political opponent. Clinton is disparaging his entire country. Once again his imbecility is unprecedented." -- R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
"... It has always been that women said "no". It changed in the 60's with the sexual revolution. It was a mistake then and it's a mistake now." -- Old Lloyd
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are; I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help" -- Ronald Reagan
"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes
until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."
-- James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
"The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance." -- J.C. Watts
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn.
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and
prove it."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to
efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity..." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections...." -- Samuel Adams
"Everthing now seems under Federal control except the national debt and the budget." - Bob Goddard
"All current congresssmen should quit and go out and find honest work." - Old Lloyd
"3 things you can count on, Death, Taxes, and Yourself, only the third thing is up to you" - Kim David Hutfilz
"There's one redeeming quality in a mistake...it means somebody stopped talking long enough to do something.." - Unknown
"Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape."
-- Solon, "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers," 3rd century A.D.
"America is the paradise of Lawyers." - Justice David J Brewer.
"You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman."
- Dr. Laura
"Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep
in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps
in the White House." - Unknown
"Look Darlin', the 60's are over...and we lost" - One mother to another on Rugrats.
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan.
"Trying to get a taste of the Clinton scandals is like trying to drink water from a wide open fire hydrant" - Martin Anderson (Wall Street Journal)
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