Al Capp

U.S. Cartoonist 1909-1979

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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Elizabeth Gaskell

English writer 1810-1865

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

(Paraphrase for Modern Times: How easy it is to find a scapegoat after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!)



I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

(Paraphrase for Modern Times: I'll not listen to reason...reason always means what liberals have to say.)

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Samuel Adams

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.


How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!


It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

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TAXATION

Dr. Lawrence J. Peter (1919-1990)

U.S. pop psychologist, writer

America is a land of taxation that was

founded
to avoid taxation.

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CENSORSHIP

A college professor..."is criticizing an unconstitutional policy -- and

they're claiming that his criticism is censorship.

No, his criticism is free speech; investigating him

with an integrity committee, because he engaged in free speech --

now that truly threatens censorship."


David French
President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

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Freedom of Speech

I may not agree with what you say, but will defend to death your right to say it.

Voltaire

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The value of those History lessons

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that
good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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Those who cannot learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.

George Santayana

Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist

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Dumbest Quotes Ever

from Arcamax joke a day newsletter....

These were sent in by a subscriber and we cannot attest to their accuracy...But aren't they hilarious? ((my added comments....))


"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." --Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --Bill Clinton, former US president ((You think?))

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," --A congressional candidate in Texas. ((At least he KNEW he was a jackass!))

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"--Lee Iacocca ((Me and mine need 99.9% clean air mr. iacocca; you and yours, on the other hand, may have my.1% I don't need.....))

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." --Al Gore, Vice President ((DUH))

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." --Al Gore, former US Vice President ((Gore is their Quayle!!!!))

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Dan Quayle ((I wish he would change political parties and become a democrat......))

If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman ((Well, whew, that's a relief!!!!))

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." --Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina ((Yes, they DO, stupidly do this!!!!!))



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Babe Ruth's Record

Babe Ruth's record of 714 home runs will never be forgotten. But how many of us know that Babe struck out 1,330 times, a record unapproachable by any other player in the history of baseball!

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People are Able

If you think you are beaten, you are.

If you think you dare not, you don't.

If you like to win, but you think you can't,

it is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you've lost.

For out of the world we find,

Success begins with a fellow's will--

It's all in the STATE OF MIND.

If you think you are outclassed, you are.

You've got to think high to rise.

You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins is the man

WHO THINKS HE CAN!!!

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People are able because they think they are able.

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING.

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And here you all thought the picture book of "The Little Engine That Could" was just for children!

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Quotes for Teachers!

If more students were self-starters, less teachers would be cranks.

Education is not received, it is ACHIEVED.

Improvement begins with 'I'.

The dictionary is the ONLY place where 'success' comes before 'work'.

Success is picking yourself up one more time than you fall down.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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God save us

May God save the country, for it is evident

that the people will not.

President Millard Fillmore

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John F. Kennedy

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

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