The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. James Fenimore Cooper
The American Democrat, American Author (1789-1851)
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They are a disaster. They ruined the poor. They created a culture …
They are a disaster. They ruined the poor. They created a culture of poverty and a culture of violence which is destructive of this civilization, and they have to be replaced thoroughly from the ground up. Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich, 1994 on the Great Society programs
Interestingly, if one were to compare side-by-side the constitutions of …
Interestingly, if one were to compare side-by-side the constitutions of the UN and of Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union, they are almost identical in every word and content. For example:Art. 118 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to work, same as UN Art. 23.Art. 120 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to medical care in the event of sickness, old age, or unemployment, same as UN Art. 25.Art. 119 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to rest and leisure, same as UN Art. 24.Art. 122 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says motherhood and childhood are entitled to special assistance, same as UN Art. 25, Pt. II.Art. 126 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to unite in trade unions, same as UN Art. 23, Pt. IV.Art. 121 of the Soviet Union’s Constitution says all citizens of the USSR have the right to education, same as UN Art. 26.So, where are our *inalienable* rights under the UN Charter? Nowhere, because as with the Soviet Union which believed that government, and not the people, had inalienable rights, all citizens under a one world government will be entitled to a host of rights, ‘except as prescribed and limited by law’. Unknown
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, …
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)
Don’t give up the ship! James Lawrence Tradition has it that …
Don’t give up the ship!
James Lawrence
Tradition has it that Capt. James Lawrence said these heroic words after being mortally wounded in the engagement between his ship, the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, and H.M.S. Shannon on 1 June 1813. As the wounded Lawrence was carried below, he ordered ‘Tell the men to fire faster! Don’t give up the ship!’ Although the Chesapeake was forced to surrender, Captain Lawrence’s words lived on as a rallying cry during the war. Oliver Hazard Perry honored his dead friend Lawrence when he had the motto sewn onto the private battle flag flown during the Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813. (William S. Dudley, ed., The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History [Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1992] 2: 559)
No man has ever ruled other men for their own good. George …
No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
George D. Herron
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[Government] can’t tax things like businesses or corporations, it can only tax people. When it says it’s going to ‘make business pay,’ it is really saying it is going to make business help it collect taxes. Ronald Reagan
1978
If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think …
If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what’s at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation. They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Winston Churchill said that ‘the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits, not animals.’ And he said, ‘There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.’ You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964
In an attempt to improve his technological image, Vice-President Al Gore …
In an attempt to improve his technological image, Vice-President Al Gore unveiled the world’s fastest computer at a White House event on 10/28/98. However, during a campaign trip to a Pittsburgh valve factory, the Vice-President ‘smiled and admitted that he has trouble turning on a computer-let alone using one.’ Al Gore
‘Gore Touts Job-Training Programs at Pittsburgh Factory,’ Associated Press, September 4, 1998
I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of …
I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them. The point, ladies and gentlemen, is that greed — for lack of a better word — is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.
the movie, Wall Street