No man who is not willing to bear arms and fight for his rights … should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community. Theodore Roosevelt
(26th President of the United States, 1858-1919)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
I’ve had some experience in farming myself. I was raised a …
I’ve had some experience in farming myself. I was raised a good part of my life on a farm. I’ve cleaned out hog lots. I’ve planted. I’ve harvested. I’ve taken up hay all day in the sun, and then after a short dinner break help neighbors take it up by moonlight before the rain came. I’ve helped deliver calves with my bare hands. Agritalk with Ken Root, 3/20/99Bob Carter, 72, can buy the hay harvest, but delivering calves with bare hands he isn’t so sure about. Mr. Carter says he grew up on a dairy farm in Montgomery County [Md.], back before subdivisions even appeared in the blueprints. While his milking days are over, his heart is still with the cows. And calves. ‘This proves again that Mr. Gore probably doesn’t know anything about it,’ says the former dairy farmer. ‘Because one thing you do when a cow is having a calf is you don’t touch anything, you just let them handle things in a natural way like a cow can do.’ Al Gore
John McCaslin, The Washington Times, 3/24/99
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. …
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams
1814
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as …
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. P.J. O’Rourke
1993 (1947- )
Meet the sun every day as if it could cast a ballot. …
Meet the sun every day as if it could cast a ballot.
Henry Cabot Lodge
advice to a novice politician
Recognize that you don’t live in a vacuum. Every time you …
Recognize that you don’t live in a vacuum. Every time you break a rule, it hurts someone else. If you can’t figure out how, sit there until you can. Albert J. Bernstein, PhD
Emotional Vampires
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[W]hile it is perfectly proper for a society to think about the unfortunate, it must never be encouraged to think like them. Peregrine Wilson
British Columnist Peregrine Wilson as quoted in George Will’s, The Leveling Wind.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. …
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
The essence of any presidency is character, just character. Eric Sevareid From …
The essence of any presidency is ‘character, just character.’ Eric Sevareid
From David McCullough’s biography of President Truman quoting Sevareid, TV news journalist (1912 – 1992)
Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! …
Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough. Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (1840s)