Sayings
Issue #32 Posted March 3, 2004
"We are in a war and we are winning due more to the courage and superb character of our soldiers than to the popular mobilization and engagement of the American citizenry itself. We have the best military in the history of civilization, but we can still lose this war — unless we remember September 11, acknowledge the awful nature of our enemies, and always, always accept the truth that civilization itself hangs in the balance." -- Victor Davis Hanson
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake free people get to make only once." -- Judge Alex Kozinski, 9th Circus Court of Appeals. one of the dissenters in Silveira v. Lockyer.
"If you don't have a gun, you have nothing." -- Auschwitz survivor Menashe Lorinczi, by way of David Kopel
"When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place." -- Paul Craig Roberts
"There is a difference between casualties from collateral damage and casualties from deliberate slaughter." -- Ben Shapiro
"The tears for slain children, by men who send their women and children out to die as suicide bombers, are the tears of crocodiles." -- Wesley Pruden
"A civil society is weakened when there is one standard of justice for private companies and individuals, and another for well-connected people in government." -- Richard W. Rahn
Enjoy life live it to the fullest!! Be good to each other and fight smart.-- Todd bruce
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. -- Helen Keller
"But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." -- Thomas Paine
"The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation.... Mine honor is my life, both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done." -- Shakespeare
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." -- Aesop
"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle." -- Edmund Burke
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." -- Frederick Douglass
"In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives." -- Felix Frankfurter
"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only hundred per cent Americanism." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue." -- David Horowitz
"Despite the ongoing debate about the personhood of the unborn child, all but the most zealous of abortion proponents recognize that the infant who survives an abortion is clearly a child with inherent dignity and a right to life. " -- Ken Connor
"My concern is not what [Attorney General John] Ashcroft and President Bush will do with the new powers granted the government to conduct the war on terrorism. It is what a future attorney general like Hillary Clinton could easily do with those powers. This is not a trivial matter." -- Paul Weyrich
"Willingness is a state of mind. READINESS is a statement of fact!"
"There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage." -- John Witherspoon
"Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." -- Winston Churchill
"Second worst thing in world is to stand with two feet on same line." – Master Liang, Tai chi chuan master
"The tyranny of the legislatures is the most formidable dread at present, and will be for long years. That of the executive will come in it's turn, but it will be at a remote period." James Madison, 15 March 1798 (Papers of J.M., vol 12, p.14; LC call no. JK.111.M24)
"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws." -- Walt Whitman
"The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own." -- William Shakespeare
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever." -- Oscar Wilde
"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it, hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart." -- C. S. Lewis
"If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation." -- Samuel Adams
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself." -- Leo Tolstoy
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." -- Sir Francis Bacon
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." -- Edmund Burke
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"The way to be safe is never to be secure." -- Benjamin Franklin
"When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor." -- Ogden Nash
"...[F]ew things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion." -- Charles Colson
The great rulers - the people do not notice their existence. The lesser ones they attach to and praise them. The still lesser ones - they fear them. The still lesser ones - they despise them. For where faith is lacking it cannot be met by faith. -- Tao Te Ching
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." -- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
"The state is what it is because the citizens are what they are. We may not expect a better state until we have better men." -- Plato
"If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security." -- Samuel Adams
"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand -- the one doing the important job -- unnoticed." -- David K. Shipler
"It is OK to think about what you want to do, until it is time to do what you are meant to do." – Jim Crews
"In cases of defense 'tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems." -- Shakespeare
"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em." --General Lewis "Chesty" Puller
"Never mistake motion for action." -- Ernest Hemingway
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." -- General Omar N. Bradley
2004-2