| To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the
propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
-- Thomas Jefferson ***
"The time will and must come, when honesty will
receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to
a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to
redeem ourselves from the government of one man."
David Crockett
**
You'd make a great diplomat if you didn't talk
quite so much." Abraham Lincoln
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Stimulate the Economy, Not the Government ~ Mitt
Romney
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is
better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is
nearer to the truth that he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ~
Thomas Jefferson
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We demand that big business give the people a
square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business
honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal. ~
Theodore Roosevelt
**
 Most
notable of the economic mistakes in the Bush administration complained about by
citizens was the lackadaisical enforcement of immigration laws. Deliberate
avoidance of these laws flooded states with illegal immigrants who worked for
low wages and squandered away jobs needed by legal citizens. ~ Dr.
Norman Jones author of Main Street Vs. Wall Street.
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We can have democracy in this country or we can
have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. ~
United States Supreme Court Justice Louis D. brandeis
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The problem with being pious in politics is that
piety has a way of backfiring – and causing people to snicker at you. ~ Jim
Hightower
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Going back to the original Constitution is
the right road to travel, but I'd be
satisfied with stopping off on the road back at the last day
of Teddy Roosevelt's term in office ~ Lin Stone
***
The compact which exists
between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an
agreement with hell. William Lloyd Garrison
** We had a muzzled press during the war, and now we've got
free speech. It seems like one's as bad as the other. Mary
Roberts Rinehart ** Were we to be
directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want
bread. -- Thomas Jefferson
***
The government needs to find better ways to
spend its time and our money. Mike McLean, Richfield Minn.
**
Legislation is the opposite of liberty. R J Harris
*** Some nation must lead the world out of the
black night of war into the light of that day when "swords shall be
beaten into plow-shares." Why not make that honour ours? Some
day--why not now?--the nations will learn that enduring peace cannot
be built upon fear--that good-will does not grow upon the stalk of
violence. Some day the nations will place their trust in love, the
weapon for which there is no shield; in love, that suffereth long
and is kind; in love, that is not easily provoked, that beareth all
things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things; in love, which, though despised as weakness by the
worshippers of Mars, abideth when all else fails. William Jennings
Bryan ***
One country, one constitution, one
destiny. Daniel Webster
***
We were told to vote for change we could believe
in and found we had elected people who wanted to change what we believed. Jackie
Cushman
***
War is not the best way of settling differences;
however, it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
G.K. Chesterton
***
Loyalty runs deep and lasts forever in spite of others,
and sometimes even in spite of what we do. When Benedict Arnold was dying he
asked a priest to make sure he was wrapped in an American flag. ~ Cole
Younger, the Confederate outlaw.
***
“He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.”
Shakespeare
***
Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of
Noah's Ark.
Ann Coulter.
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We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our
machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the
other society, our kids, build a reasonable life. Richard Lamm.
***
Where we once had a few big rules, now we need an encyclopedia of
little rules. Chesterson.
***
The main thing that endears the United
Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its
proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations
in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. Conor Cruise
O'Brien
***
Women should not be allowed to serve in the military. They are
too vicious. Ann Coulter.
***
When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll
start representing the interests of school children. Albert
Shanker.
***
You can't get rid of poverty by giving
people money. -- P.J O'Rourke
***
I have no further use for America. I
wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. Charlie
Chaplin
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I would rather have a nod from an
American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. Lord Byron
***
There is nothing the matter with Americans
except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the
ideal American who is all wrong. Gilbert K. Chesterton
***
In the beginning of a
change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned.
When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it
costs nothing to be a Patriot. -- Mark Twain
***
Once upon a time,
government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the
streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government
took less than 10% of our income. -- Harry Browne
***
Most people, sometime in
their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush
themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing
had happened. -- Sir Winston Churchill
***
To disarm the people (is)
the best and most effectual way to enslave them... -- George
Mason
***
If you've got them by the
balls, their hearts and minds will follow. -- attributed to John Wayne
***
The stoical scheme of
supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting
off our feet when we want shoes. -- Jonathan Swift
***
We are not abandoning our
convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone
to abandon theirs. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
***
If we can't legislate what goes on in the bedroom, why can't I hide
money from the IRS under my mattress? Ann Coulter.
***
Humans have rights under
any and all conditions.
KATHY
KASTEN *** “If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child,
how can we tell other people not to kill each other? … Any country that
accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any
violence to get what they want.” Mother Teresa. ***
If you wish to avoid
foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. Henry
Clay
***
The arts of power and its
minions are the same in all countries. It marks its
victim, denounces it, and excites the public odium and the
public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
Henry Clay.
**
Freedom is a fragile frame and is never more than
one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be
fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to
a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it
again.
**
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty,
and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered
deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of
the American people. George Washington
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our
civil self constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty
to defend them against all attacks. Samuel Adams
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If ye love wealth greater than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the
animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We
seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick
the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon
you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
-- Samuel Adams
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One country, one constitution, one
destiny. Daniel Webster
**
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and
are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster
**
I only regret that I have but one
life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale.
**
If America lived up to its
heritage, its greatness would last forever."
J.T. Hale
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If you don't work you won't eat. Capt. John Smith
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Give Me Liberty, or Give me
Death
Patrick Henry
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We are not weak, if we make proper
use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in
our power... The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it
is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry
***
By a continuing process of
inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and
unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their
citizens. Lenin
** Democracy
must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on
what to have for dinner. James Bovard. **
Nobody ever died for apple pie.
**
My opponent believes he is a wit. His voting record is
only half right too.
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The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Government should provide services that will best facilitate our individual and
collective prosperity and freedom. Jesse Ventura
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One more speech in the halls of Congress like that last one
and my opponent will never deliver pizza in this state again.
**
Pharmaceutical companies now have more registered lobbyists than there are
congressmen. Peter Jennings
**
The majority in electing our office holders may be less than a quarter of our
eligible population. That raises a question as to whether we qualify as a
democracy at all. Walker Cronkite
**
When you look at politicians today, you don't see profiles in courage. You see
profiles in discourage. Dan Rather
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Hell, I never vote for anybody,
I always vote against. ~ W. C. Fields
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Honest people have rights too. ~
Emiliano Zapata
***
Prosperous farmers mean more employment,
more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every
industrial area in the whole country. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
***
"A slave is one who waits for
someone else to free him." - Rosellen Brown
***
Thank God we still live in a free
country, even if we don't like the political game that is
played. ~ Zelma Leker Myers
**
Of course the banks must pay the money back to Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac. You do want hungry politicians to be fed, don't you?
***
Sometimes, when he makes a speech,
I think he had his ears pierced too deep.
**
ART. X of New Hampshire State Constitution:
Government being instituted for the common
benefit; protection, and security of the whole community, and not
for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or
class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are
perverted and public liberty manifestly endangered , and all other
means of redress are ineffectual, the people of right ought and may
to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of
non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd,
slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
***
Who ordained that the few should
have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made
10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us
trespassers in the land of our birth? -- David Lloyd George
We cannot defend freedom abroad while deserting it at home. Edward R. Murrow
**
A democracy can recover quickly from physical or economic disaster, but when
it's moral convictions weaken it becomes easy prey for the demagogue and
charlatan. Tyrany and oppression then become the order of the day. J. William
Fulbright
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in
the higher classes. Victor Hugo
We have met the enemy and he is us. Pogo
Tyranny begins when law can be bought. Dr. Norman Jones, author of Main Street
Vs. Wall Street.
Winners don't have good attitudes because they win, they win because they have
good attitudes. Dr. Jim Tunney
Criticism works better with those doing well already. Dr. Norman Jones
**
A life without confrontation is meaningless. Socrates
**
Trillions of dollars have been spent since Pres. Johnson declared war on poverty
more than 40 years ago, and poverty rates are largely unchanged. Michael Tanner
That which the media doesn't report politicians can ignore. ~ Dr. Norman Jones
**
The great divide in our country is not between Republicans and Democrats or
liberals and conservatives. It is between those on the inside of government and
the rest of us. United States Senator. Peter Fitzgerald - R-IL
**
Let us never forget that government
is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The
ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and
senators and congressmen and government officials, but
the voters of this country. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Put two or three men in
positions of conflicting authority. This will force them
to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate
arbiter. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
**
A politician
is a man who understands government.
A statesman is a politician who's
been dead for 15 years. -- Harry S.
Truman
You want a
friend in Washington? Get a dog. ~
Harry S. Truman
(General Grant's) imperturbability is amazing. I am in doubt
whether to call it greatness or stupidity. ~ James A. Garfield
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Grant is not a retreating man.
Gentlemen, the Army of the Potomac has a head. ~ Robert E. Lee
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