Being a student of history Fr. Frog has collected many wise and witty sayings from both the famous and infamous of our past and present. These words of wisdom deal with life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the field of weaponcraft. All are applicable to modern life, and all are guaranteed to be politically incorrect. There may be occasional duplicates from past issues since I don't have the time to check.
Note: I have not tried to verify any of the quotes as to authenticity, but even if they are not authentic the sentiments stated therein are genuine.
I will try to update this section on a regular (well OK, so it's irregular) basis. Hopefully they'll appear January, March, May, July, September, and November, but lately I have fallen way behind. Hopefully things will be more consistent. but I may just go to "a couple of times a year."
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Sayings
#137
"Our founding fathers went to great lengths to ensure that we were a republic and not a democracy. In fact the word "democracy" does not appear the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or any other of the founding documents." -- via Patriot Post
"A wall doesn't mean "keep out. It means "use the door." -- unkown
" How much faith do I have in humanity? I look both ways at traffic circles." -- Fr. Frog
"Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited."-- Margaret Thatcher (19225-2013)
"It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth â€" and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."-- Patrick Henry (1775)
"The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing."-- Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)
"If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's."-- Thomas Jefferson (1786)
"To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and aim of criminal jurisprudence. To punish them, is one of the means necessary for the accomplishment of this noble end and aim."-- James Wiilson (1790)
"The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit."-- Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
"We are watching the effects of the West's Green Suicide Pact in real time: Russia blackmailing all of Europe, California power shortages (again), injection of hundreds of billions of dollars into not-ready-for-primetime technology in an inflationary cycle. Unserious leadership."-- Ben Shapiro
"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."-- George Washington (1789)
"The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them."-- Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
"Judges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men."-- John Adams (1776)
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation."-- Thomas Paine (1792)
"Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest."-- Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."-- James Madison (1787)
"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon."-- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"There is a new movement against farming. This is no random grassroots movement. It's a global one with political interests. This new collective strategy proposes to reduce agricultural production, reduce livestock numbers, and ban plant growth-enhancing fertilizers. ... For the Church, this should be a concern. It goes against the Biblical mandate for humans to subdue and rule the earth (Genesis 1:28). The Scriptures advise humankind to flourish by harnessing the naturally available land for plant and animal husbandry. ... To reduce agricultural production when hunger and poverty are still prevalent among billions in the world will be suicidal and anti-Biblical. The more food costs, the more people will be pushed into food poverty. ... Those who are intentional about ending global poverty and those with a compassionate heart cannot support draconic agricultural policies that seek to disrupt the great advancement in global food production."-- Vijay Jayaraj
"The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people."-- George Washington (1794)
"People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We'll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us."-- Joseph Sobran (19946-2010)
For the Record "The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, [Democrats] all of a sudden go berserk and they're so upset that this is happening. And it just shows you their virtue signaling is a fraud." -- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
"The same people who think 1M+ illegal immigrants crossing our border is 'no big deal' now think 50 migrants being bused into their community is a 'humanitarian crisis.' Can't make this stuff up."-- Caleb Hull
"If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue."-- James Madison (1789)
"A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense has really become very uncommon. Straightforward ideas appear strange or unfamiliar, and any thought that does not follow the conventional curve or twist, is supposed to be a sort of joke." -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it."-- George Washington (1785)
"Others-- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders-- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few-- as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men-- serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part."-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."-- Benjamin Franklin (1774)
"We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society-- not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State."-- Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
"If we are to be told by a foreign Power ... what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little."-- George Washington (1796)
"Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight." -- Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
"It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness."-- James Wilson (1791)
"If every person has the right to defend by force-- his person, his liberty, and his property,, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right-- its reason for existing, its lawfulness is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force-- for the same reason-- cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups."-- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it."-- James Madison (1788)
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political."-- Thomas Jefferson (1801)
"Life, faculties, production-- in other words, individuality, liberty, property-- this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation and are superior to it."-- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
"As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence."-- James Madison (1788)
"Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent."-- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly-- and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence."-- Thomas Sowell
"Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy." -- Alexander Hamilton (1788)
"You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise with those who want to use it to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished."-- Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
"It makes absolutely no sense to try to stop a problem that is created solely by pre-marital and extra-marital sex by encouraging pre-marital and extra-marital sex. But that's what we've been doing, all while calling it 'safe.'"-- Peter Heck
"Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act."-- Thomas Jefferson (1785)
"Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community."-- "Benjamin Rush (1788)
"We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put."-- Frederick Douglas (1818--1895)
"Don't even think about looting. Don't even think about taking advantage of people in this vulnerable situation. ... I can tell you, in the state of Florida, you never know what may be lurking behind somebody's home, and I would not wanna chance that if I were you, given that we're a Second Amendment state."-- Governor Ron DeeSantis
"Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good."-- Oliver Ellsworth (1787)
"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread."-- Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
"Most outcomes of modern education are uneducated men. Our education is uneducation; its whole tendency is to unteach people the traditions of their fathers."-- G. K. Chesterton (18874-1936)
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."-- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
"As human beings, we do not write the laws of morality. The laws of morality are written by an all-loving and all-just God. The moral law is a gift, given to us so we can truly love." -- Lila Rose
"In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature."-- James Madison (1788)
"I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty."-- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."-- Thomas Paine (1776)
"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne."-- Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
"The only countries in the world that support the Democrats' extreme position on abortion are China and North Korea. They are way out of line with the American people."-- former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
"Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?"-- Thomas Jefferson (1781)
"This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it."-- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"The best way for radical activists to ensure their bad ideas take root is to plant them in the most fertile soil possible-- the mind of a young child. So the war on truth and virtue is being waged not on a battlefield, but in classrooms and on little iPad screens and in public libraries where drag queens-- raunchy male caricatures of women-- occasionally take breaks from reading aloud to teach children how to twerk."-- Seth Dillon
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