Sayings
Issue #31 Posted January 1, 2004

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!'  Then get busy and find out how to do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"War is a dreadful thing, and I can respect an honest pacifist, though I think he is entirely mistaken. What I cannot understand is this sort of semi-pacifism you get nowadays which gives the people the idea that though you have to fight, you ought to do it with a long face as if you were ashamed of it." -- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900

"You may like to fill the air with lead, but I prefer one bullet to the head." -- Seen on a T-shirt.

"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?" -- Cicero

"The role of the public prosecutor is to seek justice; not merely to win convictions. He must stand between the police and the citizen." -- RONALD N. BOYCE

"A man is master of the words he has not spoken, and a slave to those he has."

"States. Been there. Done that. Didn't work out so well. We called it: 'The Soviet Union'." -- Rich Galen

"As long as we say their name and sing their praises, they are not truly gone. They're just deployed on a long deployment." -- Val Valentine, UNR, Ret.

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." -- Thomas Jefferson

"What fools we are when we think we can legislate away the immorality of human beings." -- Charles Colson

"What Americans can do is start demanding more of all their leaders -- ethics from businessmen, morality from church leaders, vision from politicians and depth from them all." -- Larry Seaquist

The temptation of some greedy CEOs is personal enrichment. But the temptation of many politicians is political survival." -- Cal Thomas

"The FBI should stick to fighting crime, and leave public relations to the Chamber of Commerce and political correctness to the ACLU." -- Debra Saunders

"The contest, for ages, has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." -- Daniel Webster

"Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office." -- Aristotle

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." --Thomas Jefferson

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -- Helen Keller

"Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps over his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy." -- Edmund Burke

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." -- H.L. Mencken

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." -- Winston Churchill

"That government is not best which best secures mere life and property -- there is a more valuable thing -- manhood." -- Mark Twain

"Whatever you do professionally, don't leave your values at home when you go to work." -- Dennis Prager

"Americans used to care most about freedom, our own and the freedom of others. Now, we care most about commerce. The material has replaced the spiritual." -- Cal Thomas

"All too often when people come to the church for the bread of spiritual consolation, they are given the stone of social administration." -- John O'Sullivan

"But conservatism -- real conservatism -- pays no heed to the comings and goings of dictators and politicians. It is a matter of the heart." -- Richard Poe

"Open borders for terrorists means a police state for citizens." -- Paul Craig Roberts

From the U.S. Army Training Manual of 1929 (PM 2000-25) Under the title of Citizenship: 

"Democracy: A government of the masses, authority derived through mass meetings or any other form of direct expression; results in mobocracy; attitude toward property is communistic negating property rights; attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences; its result is dem-o-gogism, license, agitation, discontent and anarchy.

"Republic: Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best suited to represent them. Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights and a sensible economic procedure. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles that establish evidence with a strict regard for consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass, it avoids the dangerous extremes of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice contentment and progress, is a standard for government around the world. "

"So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled." -- 1 Thessalonians 5:6

"Let us keep untarnished, unstained, the honor of the flag our fathers bore aloft in the teeth of the wildest storm, the flag that shall float above the solid files of a united people, a people sworn to the great cause of liberty and justice, for themselves, and for all the sons and daughters of men." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Those that give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." -- This popular quote from Thomas Jefferson is actually his quotation of brilliant criminologist Cesare Beccaria:

"The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." -- Samuel Adams

"What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite." -- James Madison

"On the free market, it is a happy fact that the maximization of the wealth of one person or group redounds to the benefit of all; but in the political realm, the realm of the State, a maximization of income and wealth can only accrue parasitically to the State and its rulers at the expense of the rest of society." -- Murray N. Rothbard

"An institution as natural, universal, and fundamental as the family cannot be manipulated without causing serious damage to the fabric and stability of society." -- Pope John Paul II

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The less government we have, the better -- the fewer laws, and the less confided power." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Progress is born of cooperation in the community -- not from government restraints." -- Herbert Hoover

"I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953)

"A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war." -- Sir Francis Bacon

"In war there is no substitute for victory." -- Douglas MacArthur

"To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering." -- Barry Goldwater

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." -- Plato

"When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em.   That's statesmanship of the highest order." -- Will Rogers

"The dark is never quite so black as at the bottom of a mine, and religion is never quite so heartfelt as when all other hope has vanished." -- Wesley Pruden

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