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Ronald Reagan
First Inaugural address
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Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they …
Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. Captain John Parker
April 19, 1775, at Lexington Green, commanding the militia at the Battle of Lexington and Concord, at the first battle of the American War for Independence.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people …
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. Harry Reasoner
Only half of all hybrid vehicles on the U.S. market are …
Only half of all hybrid vehicles on the U.S. market are more fuel-efficient than their non-hybrid versions, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists find: some models pair a big gas-guzzling engine with hybrid technology in a way that enhances only performance, not fuel economy, explains UCS’s David Friedman. Newsweek
April 14, 2008
An effort by the government to communicate almost face-to-face with …
An effort by the government to communicate almost face-to-face with as many of its citizens as possible, and to make its case for voluntary sacrifices, rather than simply confiscate the needed money through taxes. A gargantuan feat of popular democracy, the likes of which have since vanished from the culture. James Bradley
On the War Bond efforts of World War II (Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley, 2000)
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’…
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. Abraham Lincoln
1854, (1809-1865), 16th president of the United States.
Governmental scientific inquiry is a contradiction in terms. Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged (…
Governmental scientific inquiry is a contradiction in terms. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged (Quentin Daniels),(1905-1982)
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has …
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you …
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy in his Inaugural Address in 1962, echoing a Memorial Day, 1884 address made by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., one who had fought in the Civil War.
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles …
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty. Daniel Webster
Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 93. 1782-1852