If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. ------------------ Verdad
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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." - Samuel Adams
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. --John F. Kennedy
"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots." - Barbara Ehrenreich
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country" - Hermann Goering
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"I blame myself as much as anything. I've always thought that I was too insignificant to make a difference, so I didn't get involved. I'm starting to think that it's time to get involved..." - F-I-E-R-O
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"Ice cream.... Ice cream. Not Ice queen. Both look and sound a lot alike but there is a difference. Ice cream can save the world, Ice queen just thinks she can." - 84Bill
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"A vehicle got close to them, and they opened fire on it randomly as if they were in the middle of a confrontation. You won't find a head. The brain is scattered on the ground. I am shaking as I am trying to describe to you what happened. We are not able to eat. These were innocent people. Is it so natural for them to shoot innocent people?"
- Ahmed Kadhim Hussein, an Iraqi policeman, describing the shooting deaths by private military contractors of two Christian women on their way home from work.
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I am not ready to announce yet - even though it's clear that the voters are desperate for a white, male, middle-aged, Jesus-trumpeting alternative. - Stephen Colbert
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"I have nothing but respect for our brave men and women in uniform and wish them the very best. But I respect neither the commander-in-chief who keeps them in harm's way nor the chickenhawks in Congress who vote to deny children health care. These brave men and women are in Iraq to protect our children — as should Republicans in Congress." Rep. Pete Stark
"I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions." "I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed." "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can’t say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. “All of you words over here, you seven….baaaad words.” That’s what they told us, right? …You know the seven, don’t ya? That you can’t say on TV? Sh**, pi**, fu**, cu**, co**sucker, motherfu**** and tits." - George Carlin
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
"I think it's funny how someone who believes in many of the same ideals upon which this nation was founded is being labelled as a radical and an extremist. So I guess things like civil liberty, free market economy, limited government, and personal responsibility are radical, extremist ideas. Well, to someone who prefers to live in a socialist nanny-state, they may be."
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"Forget our fate", the pedlar sings. Set up to sell my soul, I've lived a life for wealth to bring. And yet I'll gaze [at]... The colour of spring, Immerse in that one moment, Left in love with everything, Soar the bridges that I burnt before, One song among us all...
-Mark Hollis, "The Colour of Spring"
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Winston Churchill in his younger years at a major political function at which he was clearly drinking to much, was approached by a member of Parliment's wife who said " Mr. Churchill, you are drunk. He replied - Madam you are ugly. And the difference between us is that when I wake up in the morning, I will be sober, but when you wake up in the morning you will still be ugly" - Winston Churchill (that's as close to the quote as I remember it). Ed
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The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. --Anita Loos
