We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war — the guerrilla wins if he does not lose, the conventional army loses if it does not win. Henry Kissenger
Foreign Affairs Magazine, 1968
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It would be a good time to replace the drug war with …
It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease. George McGovern
We have only two sources of information about the character of the …
We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first). Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be …
In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be taken by one House without submission to the President; but it is crystal clear from the records of the Convention, contemporaneous writings and debates, that the Framers ranked other values higher than efficiency.
INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 958-59 (1983)
We should go to Washington and stone Henry Hyde to death. . . And …
We should go to Washington and stone Henry Hyde to death. . . And then we should go to his house and kill his family. Alec Baldwin
[Caring, compassionate, and ultra-liberal] Alec Baldwin during a television talk show discussion of Mr. Clinton’s impeachment hearings. From “The Hypocritical Rocker Posse,” Insight Magazine, March 13, 2000, page 48.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft …
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare
M for M, Act i, Sc.5
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in …
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. John Quincy Adams
Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a …
Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained. Randy E. Barnett
Randy E. Barnett, Curing the Drug-Law Addiction
Today the word hero has been diminished, confused with celebrity. But in …
Today the word ‘hero’ has been diminished, confused with ‘celebrity.’ But in my father’s generation the word meant something. Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. Heroes are heroes because they have risked something to help others. Their actions involve courage. Often, those heroes have been indifferent to the public’s attention. But at least, the hero could understand the focus of the emotion. However he valued or devalued his own achievement, it did stand as an accomplishment. James Bradley
(Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley, 2000)
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has us free and …
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Paul
Galatians 5.1, quoted in the Wall Street Journal,Christmas Eve, 1949.