Sayings
Issue #14 posted 2000-06-01
"I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself." -- Robert E. Lee
"Other than supporting the Bill of Rights, does anything constitute treason in this country any more?" -- Minority Mike
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" -- Samuel Adams in a letter to John Pitts, January 21, 1776
"Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic, but will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." -- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, Address at Harrow School, 29 October 1941.
"...wanting good government in their states, they first established order in their own families; wanting order in the home, they first disciplined themselves." -- Conficious
"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous." -- Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
"Under the administration of Rhodes, there were the fewest laws, the widest freedom, the least crime, and the truest justice I have ever seen in any part of the world." -- Frederick Russell Burnham
"I miss the clarity." -- From the movie "Three Days of the Condor" when the John Houseman character was asked about the old days."No one in this world can you trust: Not men. Not women. Not horses." (Holding up his sword) "THIS, you can trust!" -- from the movie "Conan, The Barbarian"
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship." -- from "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, by Alexander Tyler
"Naturally, when one is intensely interested in a certain cause, the tendency is to associate particularly with those who take the same view." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval." -- Thomas S. Monson (Ensign, November 1986, page 41)
"Man, in public trust, will much oftener act in such a manner as to render him unworthy of being any longer trusted, than in such a manner as to make him obnoxious to legal punishment." -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #70
"Beware the fury of a patient man." -- John Dryden
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one *makes* them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on the guilt." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Be careful of your thoughts because thoughts become words.
Be careful of your words because words become actions.
Be careful of your actions because actions become habits.
Be careful of your habits because habits become character.
Be careful of your character because character becomes destiny.
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." -- Adolf Hitler
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crises, maintain their neutrality."
"Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood." - Maya Angelou
"To be attacked by the enemy is not a bad thing but a good thing. It shows that we have not only not been idle, but that we have achieved a great deal in our work." -- Mao Tse Tung
"I would surely rather strike a blow than either flee or remain quiet, waiting to be struck." -- Robert E. Lee, "Guns of the South"
"Don't get killed for lack of shooting back." -- Anon
"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from man because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm those only who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty - so dear to man, so dear to the enlightened legislator - and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. They ought to be designated as laws not preventative but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree." -- Cesare Beccaria, 1764 AD
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872
"The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!" -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943
"Delay in the use of force, and hesitation to accept responsibility for its employment when the situation clearly demands it, will always be interpreted as a weakness. Such indecision will encourage further disorder, and will eventually necessitate measures more severe than those which would have sufficed in the first instance." -- United States Marine Corps Small Wars Manual, (1940) page 27, paragraph (d)