Sayings
Issue #33 Posted June 6, 2004

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never give in to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." -- Winston Churchill

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." -- Alexander Hamilton, 1775

"No better friend. No worse enemy." -- US Marines

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope." -- Sir Winston Churchil

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." -- annon

WELCOME TO ALASKA--Step of the airplane and into the food chain

If you want government to intervene domestically, you are a liberal.  If you want government to intervene overseas, you are a conservative.  If you want government to intervene everywhere, you are a moderate.  If you do not want government to intervene anywhere, you are an extremist. -- Joseph Sobran

"The real democratic American ideal is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance." -- Henry Ward Beecher

"The noblest of all forms of government is self-government; but it is also the most difficult." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." -- John Milton

Lord, the money we do spend on government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago." -- Will Rogers

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill

"Peace, in hostile situations, requires that no party be too publicly, or too sincerely, peaceful." -- Joshua Kleinfeld

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who do not." -- Thomas Jefferson

"[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections." -- Bruce Fein

"The only effective way to restrain government spending is by limiting government's explicit tax revenue." -- Milton Friedman

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it." -- Clint Smith

"A 9mm might expand--but a .45 wont shrink" – Jim Hass

"Professional: someone who is paid for their services but not necessarily knowledgeable or an expert ... Expert: someone who "knows" but is not necessarily paid for his knowledge; Amateur: Someone who may "Know" and is willing to transfer knowledge, is not paid, and sometimes is non respected ..."

"...amateurs practice until they get it right. A professional practices UNTIL HE CAN'T GET IT WRONG!"

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." -- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"If everything seems under control you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti

"Any man who is under 30; and is not a liberal; has not heart; and any man who is over 30; and is not a conservative; has no brains." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" -- Samuel Adams

"If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C.S. Lewis

"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." -- Daniel Webster

``When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.'' -- Mark Twain

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." -- Samuel Adams

"Adversity introduces a man to himself." -- Anonymous

The great majority of the victims of violent crime are taken by surprise. The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses. Learn by the experience of others and don't let yourself be surprised. -- Jeff Cooper

"Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be...." -- John Adams

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power." -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them." -- Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

"What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand." -- Flemish proverb

"Who lies for you will lie against you." -- Bosnian proverb

"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." -- Aesop

"Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain." -- William Hazlitt

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep." -- Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord

Quis custodiet ipso custodes - Who will guard the guards?

2004-3


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