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“We Have
to Go Spend
Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt”
Joe Biden:
" Let's say
that if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I
will unreservedly choose to go to hell."
Saul Alinsky
.
" To beat your enemies, who first have to seduce your allies."
Saul Alinsky.
"Prudence is a virtue which is proper to the prince."
Aristotle
.
"Those who are pious should pray; those who are wise should teach; those who are prudent should govern."
St. Thomas
Aquinas
.
"Here's my idea of our relations with Russia, we're going to win, and they're going to lose."
Ronald Reagan
.
"It has long
been a grave
question, whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of
its
people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great
emergencies".
Abraham Lincoln
.
"I
would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience
would
more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who
hasn't
lived that life."
Judge
Sonia Sotomayor, nominee for the Supreme
Court (05/09),
and a member of the National Council
of La
Raza
.
“Never
let a crisis go to waste” Rahm Emanuel
“In
my
country, in my family … I believe that a marriage should be
between a man and a
woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised and
that's
how I think it should be – between a man and a
woman.”
Carrie Prejean – an openly Christian
Miss California.
"The
worst thing you can ever do is be scared in the face of evil,"
Dr.
Orly Taitz
“Weakness is provocative”
Donald
Rumsfeld
“when
bad
men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one,
an
unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Edmond Burke
"For God's
sake,
please stop the aid!"
James
Shikwati, Kenyan economist
On just war
theory: "Among true worshippers of God those wars are looked on
as
peacemaking which are waged neither from aggrandizement nor cruelty but
with
the object of securing peace, of repressing evil and supporting the
good."
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II, IIae, 40.1
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"Suppose you
were
an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I
repeat
myself."
Mark
Twain
"--the crisis
of
the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to
God"
Whittaker
Chambers
"The West is
born
of Christianity, and the crisis of the West is that it isn't Christian
anymore"
Cardinal
Aaron Lustiger
"Nuts"
General
Anthony McAuliffe
"The facts of
life
are Tory"
Lady
Marguerite Thatcher
Anti-Americanism,
recently, more closely resembles "attacks of Tourette's Syndrome than
rational
criticism."
Andrew
Roberts, English Historian
The New York
Times
"used to be the paper with all the news fit to put in the bottom of
your
dog kennel. Now, when their owners leave, the dogs are
calling up
and canceling their subscriptions. It's a dying asset."
Roger
Ailes
“The
way to stop discrimination on the basis of race
is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,”
Chief
Justice John Roberts
"We shall
defend
our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we
shall
fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the
streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
Winston
Churchill
"The quickest
way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the
prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve the
possibility
of victory. The chief activity among left-wing writers is a
rather
pettifogging criticism which turns into a kind of dismay when England
wins a
victory, because this always falsifies their predictions."
George
Orwell
"Show me a
person
who urges 'non-judgmentalism' and I will show you a liar and a
hypocrite"
Myself
"Statesmen may
plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion
and Morality alone which can establish the principles upon which
freedom can
securely stand. A patriot must be a religious man."
John
Adams, 1775
"The God who
gave
us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may
destroy, but
cannot disjoin them".
Thomas
Jefferson
"Let us begin
by setting aside all the facts, because they do not
affect the question".
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
"Human beings
live
in the veiled presence of their Creator"
John
Polkinghorne
"The power to
tax
involves the power to destroy"
Chief
Justice John Marshall
"If it's not
raining, it don't leak. If it's raining, you can't fix it.
Relax"
J.C
Green, local rancher and philosopher,
Jefferson
Colorado.
On
small talk about roofs.
"If you cannot
be a
shining example to your children, then be a terrible warning to
them"
Anne
Muggeridge
"Pictures are
for entertainment; messages should be delivered by
Western
Union"
Sam Goldwyn
"Yesterday,
December 7, 1941, --- a date which will live in infamy--- the United
States of
America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces
of the
Empire of Japan... With confidence in our armed forces, with the
un-bounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable
triumph,
so help us God!
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
"Fatuous drivel
has
consequences"
Richard Weaver
"The basic
problem that the French have is that they believe in
nothing"
Myself
"Once men
believe
in nothing, they will believe in anything"
G.K.
Chesterton
"Who would have
thought that the whole Islamic world would be
praying for the recovery of Ariel Sharon"
Pakistani
President General Pervez Musharraf
"A billion
here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking
real
money"
Everett
Dirksen, R-IL
"You go to war
with the army you've
got"
Donald Rumsfeld
"Democracy is
two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote"
Benjamin
Franklin
"If the
personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution
inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look
to limit
those
guarantees"
OJ
Billyboy
"I did not have
sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
OJ
Billyboy
"I actually
voted
for the $87 million before I voted against it"
Senator John Francois
Kerry, the French
looking guy, 2004
"When I was
young and irresponsible, I was young and
irresponsible"
George W. Bush
"There should
be a real Liberal party in this country, and I don't
mean a crackpot professional one."
Harry
Truman
"If you can't
stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen"
Harry Truman
"The free
peoples
of the world look to us for support in maintaining their
freedoms. If we
falter--we may endanger the peace of the world."
Harry Truman
"All politics
is local”
Ronald Reagan's friend
Tip O'Neil
"Nice guys
finish
last"
Leo Durocher
"As an
unintended consequence, nice people cause
wars"
Myself
"The business
of
America is business"
Calvin
Coolidge
"The UN
Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it
lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference".
American
diplomat John Bolton
"I don't do
carrots"
American
diplomat John Bolton
"I am not one
of Fidel Castro's favorite
people"
Vaclav
Havel
"Could George
W. Bush be right? Perhaps.
Claus Christian Malzahn, Der Spiegel 01/05
"Nationalism
trumps ideology every
time"
Myself
"I have a dream
that my four 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"
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1963
Notice that in 1963, on
the Left, "Judgmentalism"
still had
an advocate- JES
"a riddle
wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but there is a key
and that key is Soviet national interest"
Winston
Churchill 1939
"We shall stand
athwart history, yelling
'Stop'!"
Bill Buckley launching National Review in 1955
"No one ever
won a
war by dying for their country. They won by making the other
son-of-a-bitch die for his."
General
George Patton
"When you come
to a fork in the road, take
it."
Yogi Berra
"The future is
inevitable and precise, but it may not occur.
God lurks in the
gaps."
Jorge Luis
Borges
"We would be
better off with only six million people, with our own
people who support the liberation struggle."
Didymus
Mutasa, Chief- Secret Police, Zimbabwe
"Mr. Gorbachev,
tear down this
wall "
Ronald Reagan
"The true
Church is not a democracy, which is why democracies need
the Church more than
ever."
Myself
"I'm an Indian
and
I'm damn proud of it."
Ira Hayes, Pima Indian and U.S. Marine
“Appeasers
believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the
tiger will become a
vegetarian.”
Heywood Brown
"You can
observe a lot just by
watching."
Yogi Berra
Haiti's only
hope is a benevolent dictator. Actually, the French
have a moral obligation to re-colonize the place.
Myself
"It is good
that
war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it."
General
Robert E. Lee
"Martha Stewart
discovered that it is possible to go to jail for
obstructing the investigation of a crime that didn't happen. Her
real
mistake was perceived disrespect for a US Attorney's
Office."
Myself
"It is not that
liberals are stupid; it's just that they know so
much that isn't
true".
Ronald Reagan
"Trust, but
verify
Ronald Reagan
"Power
tends to
corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely"
Lord
Acton.
"Democratic
society
is the first in history to blame itself because another power is trying
to
destroy
it"
Jean Francois Revel
"Only
a virtuous
people are capable of
freedom."
Benjamin Franklin,
April 18, 1787.
"No
power over the
freedom of religion is delegated to the United States by the
Constitution."
Thomas
Jefferson, 1798
"No
plan survives first contact with an
enemy"
Prussian
field marshal Helmuth von Moltke
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