‘A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.’– President Obama, Feb. 4.Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared “we have chosen hope over fear.” Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill. Charles Krauthammer
February 6, 2009; A17, WSJ.
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
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[T]he presidency is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States, 1882-1945 (Wall Street Journal, December 8, 1998)
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays …
I finished your book yesterday. . . Since I read Von Baer’s Essays nine years ago no work on Natural History Science I have met with has made so great an impression on me & I do most heartily thank you for the great store of new views you have given me. . .As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite. . .I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you. . . And as to the curs which will bark and yelp — you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead — I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness Thomas Henry Huxley
1825-1895, Letter of T. H. Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 23, 1859, regarding the Origin of Species
They call a movie art house until they find out people like …
They call a movie ‘art house’ until they find out people like it, in which case its mainstream. David Mamet
Playwright and screenwriter, U.S. News & World Report, January 8, 2001
You think it’s a conspiracy by the networks to put bad …
You think it’s a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV. But the shows are bad because that’s what people want. It’s not like Windows users don’t have any power; I think they are happy with Windows, and that’s an incredibly depressing thought. Steve Jobs
Co-founder, Apple Computer Inc.
Now I have read it and reread it, and have come to …
Now I have read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends; and I am almost more fond of it than of your previous books. Indeed, I feel about going to Africa very much as the sea-faring rat did when he almost made the water-rat wish to forsake everything and start wandering! Theodore Roosevelt
On The Wind in the Willows
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a …
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Bertrand Russell
It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to …
It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such virtues as are most wanted. John Adams
American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826)
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‘Democracy: A government for the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting…. results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic, negatingproperty rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shallregulate… Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.’ — U.S. Army Training Manual, Nov 1928. –> LATER, ARMY’S NEW DEFINITION –>’Meaning of Democracy: Because the United States is a democracy, the majorityof our people shall decide how our government is organized and run.’– U.S. Army ‘The Soldier’s Guide,’ June 1952.
Gun control advocates also include suicide in their Ogun crimeO stats while …
Gun control advocates also include suicide in their Ogun crimeO stats while bemoaning the U.S.Os Ogun culture.O Yet Western EuropeOs suicide rate is twice ours, and suicide is far more common than homicide on both sides of the Atlantic. So which side has a Ocultural problemO in that regard. Reason
Aug/Sept 2007