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QUOTES
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. If certain minds cannot understand the difference between patriotism, the highest civic virtue, and office-seeking, the lowest civic occupation, I pity them from the bottom of my heart. - General P. G. T. Beauregard I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard University faculty. - William F. Buckley, Jr. One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. - William F. Buckley, Jr. The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke Adversity introduces us to ourselves. - George W. Bush Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy. - George W. Bush America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country. - George W. Bush If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil. - Larry the Cable Guy A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no
heart; - Winston Churchill The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. - Michael Crichton The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein We don't have problems, just solutions. - Rear Admiral Eugene R. Fluckey I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, You would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you. - Harrison Ford The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. - Milton Friedman If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. - Ernest Hemingway Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. - Patrick Henry Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . 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. - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria in "On Crimes and Punishment" We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F. Kennedy It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers. - Attributed to Robert E. Lee You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln In war, my dear friends, there's no such thing as compromise. You either win or you lose. - John McCain War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse . . . - John Stuart Mill People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - George Orwell These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. - Thomas Paine Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. - Thomas Paine That government is best which governs least. - Thomas Paine It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. - General George S. Patton Better to fight for something than live for nothing. - General George S. Patton If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking. - General George S. Patton The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. - Ronald Reagan Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people? - Ronald Reagan Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. - Ronald Reagan Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. - Ronald Reagan The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression -- to preserve freedom and peace. . . . Our defensive strategy means we need military forces that can move very quickly, forces that are trained and ready to respond to any emergency. Every item in our defense program -- our ships, our tanks, our planes, our funds for training and spare parts -- is intended for one all-important purpose: to keep the peace. - Ronald Reagan The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so. - Will Rogers The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! - Eleanor Roosevelt Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana from "Reason in Common Sense" You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. - Walter M. Schirra, Sr. (father of Mercury Project astronaut Wally Schirra) Forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting. - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (when asked if Americans could forgive those who assisted in the 9/11 attacks) Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. - Margaret Thatcher If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. - Margaret Thatcher Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. - Margaret Thatcher Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it cost nothing to be a patriot. - Mark Twain A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The “United States of America”, for an amount of “up to and including my life.” That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. - Unknown Unto the Breach, All Rights Reserved, 2008 |