November 25, 2006
Food for Thought
Here are a few of my favorite quotes that I thought I would share. I think most of them have a direct bearing on today's world. What do you think? Email me if you care to share. marshalwill_kane@yahoo.com
When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already.... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” - Adolf Hitler
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. ~Baron de Montesquieu
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. Dorothy Hampton
The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. H. L. Mencken
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; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. Samuel Adams
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers. John Adams
Many of you are well enough off that...the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Sen. Hillary Clinton
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Michael Moore
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November 18, 2006
"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy"
~Thomas Jefferson
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May 28, 2005
Blood and guts
"I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight"
-General George Patton Jr
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May 24, 2005
Dead and Bloated
"I am smellin' like the rose
that somebody gave me on
my birthday deathbed
I am trampled under sole of
another man's shoes
Guess I walked too softly"
-STP
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April 18, 2005
Sweaty Teddy
“I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
-Ted Nugent at the NRA’s 2005 Annual Convention
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March 30, 2005
Welcome to the Machine
"From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death"
Justice Harry Blackmun, United States Supreme Court - Author of Roe v. Wade
-While announcing his opposition to the death penalty in 1994 (Callins v. Collins)
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March 25, 2005
Despots
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps… and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.”
Thomas Jefferson
If you get a chance, pick up Men In Black, How the Supreme Court is Destroying America by Mark Levin.
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March 16, 2005
Proving a Point
"My son said, 'It's so embarrassing having you talk all the time on TV about being gay and you picking me up at school in painter's pants.' I told him, 'Yeah, yeah, keep it for your book.'"
- Rosie O'Donnell, quoted in the New York Daily News
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February 19, 2005
"I want my anger to be healthy
I want my anger just for me
I need my anger not to control
I want my anger to be me
I need to set my anger free
I need to set my anger free
I need to set my anger free
I need to set my anger free"
-James Hetfield
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February 08, 2005
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
-General George S. Patton, Jr
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February 02, 2005
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
-Patrick Henry
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January 20, 2005
Four More Years
"My most solemn duty is to protect this nation and its people against further attacks and emerging threats. Some have unwisely chosen to test America's resolve, and have found it firm."
-President George W. Bush, January 20, 2005
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January 17, 2005
Conscience of the State
"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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January 12, 2005
Exodus 15:3
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
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December 29, 2004
Via the light of my existence
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and etermination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-- Calvin Coolidge
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December 21, 2004
Governator the Barbarian
“What is important in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian
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December 19, 2004
Preparedness
"We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand."
-A Japanese Admiral explains why Japan didn't invade the US mainland in WWII.
Thanks to Free Will for this one...
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