Issue #45 Posted January 14, 2007

"If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"Not all that we call progress is progress." -- Paul Harvey

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Daniel Webster

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"Always keep close to your heart the knowledge that you are a descendent of a free people who have never lived under the yoke of tyranny. Your freedom was paid with the blood of patriots who valued liberty over life and courage over comfort." -- Robert Wilson, American Patriot, Philadelphia

"There was a time when Thanksgiving meant an occasion for counting our blessings. But, now that we have so many blessings that previous generations could hardly have dreamed about, we take them all for granted and are much more likely to count our grievances and the ways in which others have been unfair to us." -- Thomas Sowell

You know, there is a peaceful, almost serene, moment that occurs just after the last chance to prevent the fit from hitting the shan, a moment that is almost like a deep sigh as if the Universe is thinking about what a nice day it had been up to that point, and in all that quiet, you can quite clearly hear that little voice in the back of your head saying: "Oh, bugger." -- Lawdog

"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." -- Mark Twain

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." -- Robert Frost

Three laws of nature.

1. You can't win
2. You can't brake even
3. You can't quit

"A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American, and the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is not a worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes." -- Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President

"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"A man's worth is counted in the number of his rifles." -- Raisuli the Magnificent, Lord of the Rift, Sultan to the Berbers

"...and remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep." -- Rudyard Kipling

"In more and more cases . . . politics and politicians not only contribute to the problem. They are the problem" -- John Shuttleworth, Mother Earth News

The only man who makes slavery possible is the slave." -- John W. Campbell, Jr.

"If I knew that a man was coming to my house with the fixed intention of doing me good, I would run for my life." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Adventure is the result of poor preparation" -- Mark Twain

"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." -- John F. Kennedy

"Getting and spending are not the chief aims of human existence." -- Russell Kirk

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." -- Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them." -- Malcolm Forbes

"To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"He called and commanded me--Therefore, I knew him; but later on, failed me; and therefore I slew him." -- From Son of the Shield Bearer"

"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -- Thucydides

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson

Funny how there's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over.

Said about a colleague: "He puts the minimum of thought into the maximum of words." -- Churchill

"All that can be said about politics has already been said about hemorrhoids." And to think that I went through all those years of all that high-class education without even one of those famous professors pointing out this basic, transcendent truth! -- anon.

"[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The muzzle end of a .45 pretty much says "go away" in every language. " -- Clint Smith

"One thousand 'well dones!' are easily canceled out by one 'you idiot!’"

"Liberals are arrant bigots. They would deny moral equality to anyone who disagrees with them" Winston Churchill via Charleton Heston.

"It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence." -- President Franklin Pierce

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." -- Albert Einstein

"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads." -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Courage is the first of all the virtues because if you haven't courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others." -- Samuel Johnson

"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." -- Harriet Woods

"The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security." -- Robert Welch

"France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France." -- Mark Twain

"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." -- George Washington

"One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Prayer is the single most powerful tool we have on Earth. And yet so many people misunderstand it -- or ignore it altogether. Prayer is our ability to talk directly to God -- and to listen to God tell us how to live our lives. Those who ignore prayer -- and God, too -- are missing the best part of life." -- John LeBoutillier

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." -- John Adams

"A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an impudent corps of effete snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals." -- Spiro Agnew, 1970

"On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." -- Thomas Jefferson

"[W]hen no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become self-serving busybodies." -- Alan Watts

"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 6,000 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

"Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"America...they are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country. ... I call upon you: ordinary working men of America...do not let yourselves become weak." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded." -- Charles-Louis De Secondat

"It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe." -- Massachusetts Bill of Rights

"Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice."-- Joseph Blau

"[T]he real message of Christmas is not the gifts that we give to each other. Rather, it is a reminder of the gift that God has given to each of us. It is the only gift that truly keeps on giving." -- Greg Laurie

"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so thou shalt live jollily, for a good conscience is a continual Christmas." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." -- James Madison

"It is a funny thing about life -- if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it." -- W. Somerset Maugham

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei

"Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking." -- J. C. Watts, Jr.

"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals -- that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." -- Honore De Balzac

"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much." -- Erastus Wiman

"Money with [Congress] is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it." -- David Crockett

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

"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times." -- George Washington

"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve." -- Benjamin Franklin

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." -- George Bernard Shaw

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a coordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone." -- Thomas Jefferson

"To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils." -- Thomas Holcroft

"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians." -- Angelica Grimke

"Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware." --Arthur Koestler

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome." -- Samuel Johnson

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