Saturday, March 22, 2008
Social Security is far, far and away beyond what it was ever intended to be
Rush Limbaugh on FDR’s original purpose for Social Security
"Social Security is far, far and away beyond what it was ever intended to be. Well, I take that back. I think FDR knew exactly what he wanted and he got it: something that gets Democrats elected every four years as often as possible.”
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
His speech was an act of political necessity, not courage
Rush Limbaugh commenting on Senator Barack Obama’s speech on ‘racial healing’
"America has transcended race; there is so much evidence of that that I don’t even want to waste time citing it. But Barack Obama’s church hasn’t. His speech was an act of political necessity, not courage.”
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Friday, November 23, 2007
Liberalism, the most gutless choice a human being can make
That’s right, MSNBC is thinking about hiring Rosie O’Donnell. MSNBC executives say that they’re not necessarily purposely going left to compete with Fox. That it just happens. Well, you know, they may be more right than they are wrong. Let me give you a little profundity here, folks. Any group, any person that is not by definition conservative will become liberal. Liberalism is the easiest choice in the world. It is the most gutless choice you could make, because you don’t have to do anything. All you have to do as a liberal is notice a problem, wail, and whine, and moan about it and claim that you care, and you’ll feel good about yourself and you’ll convince others that you have a big heart. Conservatism is an intellectual application that requires action to implement, to maintain, and to explain. It’s tough. Liberalism, the most gutless choice a human being can make.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Our principles are the springs of our actions
"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.”
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Friday, November 23, 2007
There has been a coordinated assault on this mission because of politics
It’s a crying shame that that statement that I just made surprises so many people. There has been a coordinated assault on this mission because of politics— for the last four years, and in the midst of that assault, the uniformed personnel, the boots on the ground, have also taken flak. They have been impugned by various Democrats that’s been reported in the media. Do I need to mention names? Jack Murtha. You know, all of these—baseless now—accusations about these uniformed people being rapists and murderers, all these phony soldiers that have come along who have never been to Iraq, said they were there. Lie, after lie, after lie. And that has been one of the things that’s been so sickening to so many about this, is that the political opposition to the war has included attacks on people who are volunteering to sacrifice their lives for the national security of this country. It is unconscionable to all of us, and far more people than you know share the view that I just expressed to you.
Rush Limbauh, 11/22/2007
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
In the end …
In the end, everything is a gag.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Barack Obama blamed Jeremiah Wright’s hatred on his generation…
Rush Limbaugh commenting on Senator Barack Obama’s speech on ‘racial healing’, dealing with the racist statements of the Senator’s minister, Jeremiah Wright
"Barack Obama blamed Jeremiah Wright’s hatred on his generation, but there were a lot of blacks who grew up in the 50s and 60s who did not become Jeremiah Wright. Just because you grew up then does not entitle you to hate the country and build a ministry around it.”
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Friday, November 23, 2007
It is a great example of groupthink.
Well, when you compare conservative radio to liberal radio, you come to that conclusion. What you have to do is compare conservative talk radio to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC cable, CNN cable, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe—pick your paper—TIME Magazine, Newsweek—pick your magazine. That’s what we’re up against. Now, they used to have a monopoly. They don’t have a monopoly anymore, but they’re still big—and they coordinate, by the way. Have you ever noticed if you watch the CBS Evening News, the first two stories or three will always be the same—on every network, with the same take? You don’t need to watch any of them. You can know what they’re all doing by watching one. It’s striking. It is a great example of groupthink.
Rush Limbaugh, 11/22/2007
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The saddest thing I can imagine is …
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
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A day without laughter is a day wasted
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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Friday, November 23, 2007
We have a whole political movement in this country that’s based on getting rid of all judgments on
We have a whole political movement in this country that’s based on getting rid of all judgments on all behavior and replacing judgment with ‘tolerance and ‘understanding.’ However, there will be no tolerance of ministers. There will be no tolerance for the pope. There will be no tolerance for conservatives. But there will be tolerance for all the depravity and all the debauchery that a society engages in.
The desire for acceptance from others is a natural human characteristic, and we’re all raised that way. We want feedback from our parents, “Good boy, Rusty!” We want to hear all of this. We want to hear how we’re good, and we’re raised to make people love us and like us. We’re raised to not offend people so that we don’t embarrass the family or whatever. We’re all raised this way. It leads to a dependency on this kind of thing, and some people are able to escape it on their own and other people aren’t and they become ruled and governed by it. You said, “a life lived doing the right thing.” See, you’re immediately in a problem right there, especially because you’re a youth minister, because the liberals in this audience hearing you say that are saying, “What right do you have to lay claim to what’s right? Who are you to tell us what the right thing to do is?”
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
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
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
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
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