Wednesday, February 04, 2009
500 million Americans lose jobs every month
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D) putting her foot in her mouth, explaining why we can’t delay passing the trillion-dollar stimulus bill
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I remain just one thing
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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Friday, November 23, 2007
The happiness of society is the end of government
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow, that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
John Adams
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey …
From Thomas Paine, a very true observation about the mindset of the self-proclaimed ‘intelligensia’
Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
- Thomas Paine
MORE...Monday, November 03, 2008
Obama is and always has been a socialist, and a radical socialist to boot.
Rush Limbaugh on his analysis of Barack Obama’s political philosophy
"Obama is and always has been a socialist, and a radical socialist to boot. And if he does become president with no institution able to put a check on his power, he’s going to have the authority to impose his will and, as he says, fundamentally change the nation. That’s no small thing.”
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When you destroy the middle class and you convince them that they’re better off on welfare …
Rush Limbaugh on what he considers to be Barack Obama’s motivation for his alleged plan to destroy the coal industry
"When you destroy the middle class and you convince them that they’re better off on welfare—that some magical guru is going to handle all their needs—then you control them and own their votes forever, and that’s why Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry.”
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Friday, November 23, 2007
People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity
People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity
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Monday, November 03, 2008
“You don’t tell a communist stand up—a communist tell you to sit down.”
"You don’t tell a communist stand up—a communist tell you to sit down.”
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I had no idea of the character
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
all government without the consent of the governed
An excellent quote by Jonathon Swift ("Gulliver’s Travels") on the nature of slavery
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
there was one of two things I had a right to
An excellent quote by Harriet Tubman, a rephrasing of "Give me liberty, or give me death"
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism
An excellent comment on "hyphenated Americanism" by former President Teddy Roosevelt
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
—Teddy Roosevelt
What then is the American, this new man?
An excellent quote, answering the question, "What is an American?"
“What then is the American, this new man?” He answered: “He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He has become an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of man, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims.”
--J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur (Letters from an American Farmer)
MORE...Tuesday, September 11, 2007
All I need to make a comedy is …
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
I like a little rebellion now and then
Thomas Jefferson, with a timely comment on the spirit of resistance to government
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable, on certain occasions, that I wish it to always be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas Jefferson – 1787