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QUOTES AND QUIPS

"When great changes occur in history,
when great principles are involved,
as a rule, the majority are wrong."
- Eugene V. Debs, Trade Unionist -


"If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign.
I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey
standing over me saying, "How do I reload this damn thing?"
- Representative Dick Armey -


"I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged
by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. -


We, the people, are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts; not to
overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln -


We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.
And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.
- Ronald Reagan, 1981 -


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke 1795 -

"I have come here not in anger or to anger, but "to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.

"I've come to state that I'm a man, free to think for myself and do as I please. I've come to assert that I am a judge, and I will not be consigned the unquestioned opinions of others.

"But even more than that, I have come to say: Isn't it time to move on? Isn't it time to realize that being angry with me solves no problems? Isn't it time to acknowledge that the problems of race have defied simple solutions, and that not one of us, not a single one of us, can lay claim to the solution? Isn't it time that we respect ourselves and each other as we have demanded respect from others?"

- Justice Clarence Thomas -
- To the National Bar Association -
- August 1, 1998 -


If you took every economist in the world and laid them
end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw -


If pride of character be of worth at any time,
it is when it disarms the efforts of malice.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1781 -


You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people
some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln -


The American people are slow to wrath, but when their
wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 -


The materials now bearing on the public mind will infallibly
restore it to its republican soundness...if the knowledge of
facts can only be disseminated among the people.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1799 -


The price of Freedom is eternal vigilance


Ultimately, it is more important that
the United States of America should survive in freedom
than that the United Nations should survive at all.
- Former UN Ambassador, Alan Keyes -


Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA -
ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state.
- Heinrich Himmler -


The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil
interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.
- George Washington -

The Cowardly Meek
Mourn not for the dead
Who in the soft earth lie,
Dust to dust, as will you and I,
But mourn for the cowardly meek
Who see the wrongs of rulers, yet dare not speak.

If you are mean to your family and nice to your friends,
you are only fooling your friends.


You judge people by their private life, not their public life.
- George Washington -


An avalanche starts with a snowflake.


In war there is no substitute for victory.
- Gen. McArthur -


I don't care about the editorials, most of my constituents
can't even read. It's those damn pictures!
- Boss Tweed -

The Enemy Of All Free Men
I am your enemy, your nightmare and your destruction.
I am more powerful than the combined militaries of the world.
I have destroyed more men than all the wars of all nations combined.
I massacre millions of people each and every generation.
I have wrecked more homes than all other causes known to you.
I cause the downfall of the greatest civilizations in history.
I spare no one.
My victims are rich and poor, young and old, strong and weak.
I do not respect color nor creed.
Children shall know me to their eternal sorrow.
I cast my shadow over every thought of man.
I hide in unseen places and I go about my work silently.
You have been warned of my presence, but you do not listen.
I never sleep and I am everywhere you are.
You can not hide.
Illness, revulsion, disease and death follow me and are my friends.
I will give you nothing.
I will take everything you have and then seek more.
I will cause you to turn away from all you once believed in
I will blind your eyes to the sins of your elected leaders
I go where my master orders.
The Prince of Darkness alone sends me into your life.
Once allowed inside, seldom am I asked to leave.
America, won't you please allow me to enter and give me rest.
I will remove all your worries and concerns.
I will take away any concern for individual responsibility.
I will bring you bliss.
I am your friend.
I am Apathy.

You got to stand for something or you will fall for anything!


Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
- J. C. Watts, U. S. Congressman from Oklahoma -


It's chilling to watch high government officials lie under oath.
- Linda Tripp -


Truth trumps spin.
- Lucianne Goldberg -


I would rather stand next to an honorable man who used a clumsy
word than next to a dishonorable man with five fancy spinners.
- Newt Gingrich -


When you spin too much, you dig the hole deeper.


We must deal with the world as we find it, not as we would like it to be.
- Lee Balkum, 1974 -