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It’s a deterrent for Timothy McVeigh. Anthony Scott Witness and victim …
It’s a deterrent for Timothy McVeigh.
Anthony Scott
Witness and victim relative when asked by the press whether the death penalty was a deterent. June 11, 2001.
Experience [has
Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
1779
shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those … ]
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to …
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
Physicist, theory of relativity (1879-1955)
The Constitution…plainly is not adequate to protect the individual against the …
The Constitution…plainly is not adequate to protect the individual against the growing bureaucracy…. The individual is almost certain to be plowed under, unless he has a well-organized active political group to speak for him. … But if a powerful sponsor is lack, individual liberty withers. Justice William O. Douglas
1968
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring …
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! Douglas Jerold
1858
We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of …
We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war [in 2008]. Sen. Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding. Senator Harry Reid
On the meaning of the Iraq War to the Democratic Party, April 13, 2007
America’s mission to the world did not end when the cold …
America’s mission to the world did not end when the cold war ended. Our mission is ongoing. Our mission is to continue to tell the world that we are for freedom and human rights of all men and women, for all time — and to do everything we can to transform the ancient dream and hope of freedom into a democratic reality everywhere! And with God’s help we will. Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp, November 30, 1990
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions …
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that …
By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. General Douglas MacArthur
Reminiscences, 1964,1880-1964