Theodore Roosevelt

26th U.S. President (1858-1919)

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. {They haven't changed much then....is it this type of man, and now woman, attracted to the job; or does the job create this type of man and woman.....?}

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. {Or guns don't kill people; people kill people.}


Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. {?!?!? Could the conspiracy theorists be correct? Is it the Luminati? The Rothschilds? The Skulls?}

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

{But then he has said}:

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

{Is it cynacism? Experience? If you have character and a thorough knowledge of the Bible you are NOT going to steal the railroad! Or shouldn't be anyway......}

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Human kind is such a contradictory, puzzling, conundrum!

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Leon Trotsky

Russian Revolutionary (1879-1940)

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. {Rarely does though}



The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.


There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. {What a gray, shadowy world this man lived in....seems a little contradictory of the above quote...}



Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. {Yes, that great idea is God!}


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Pablo Picasso

(1881-1973)

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.


Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.


Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.


Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius
of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.


Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

(Well, considering when he passed away,1973, I guess we can forgive his lack of insight in regards to this......I for one have always found it intriguing that the computer shares its birthday with the re-birth of the nation of Israel.)

Thanks to Arcamax!

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Jay Leno

With hurricanes, tornados, flooding,
earthquakes, mud slides, and
severe t-storms tearing up the country from one end to another,

"Are we sure

this is a good time to take

God


out of the

Pledge of Allegiance?"

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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

(1884-1962)

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

{That's just sad....}

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Frank Herbert

American Author (1920-1986)



How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.



He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

{C-B-N: He who controls the information, controls the world.}



If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

{C-B-N: So, welcome to the welfare state}

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Mother Charleszetta Waddles

U.S. Nun (1912-2001)

You don't have to look poor, you know, you don't have to look down.

For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be. God knows no distance.

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Rutherford B. Hayes

19th President

Republican

(1822-1893)

He serves his party best who serves his country best.

It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations

for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged

in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by

the Constitution.

While still in the army the Cincinnati Republicans ran him for the House of Representatives. He accepted the nomination, but would not campaign,explaining, "an officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon

his post to electioneer... ought to be scalped."

Coming in, I was denounced as a fraud by all the extreme men of the

opposing party, and as an ingrate and a traitor by the same class of

men in my own party. Going out, I have the good will, blessings, and

approval of the best people of all parties . . .

{read his history here: White House Archives

Hayes's election depended upon contested electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. I suppose the democrats back then thought the election was stolen too.....I'll swannee, they never change.}

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George Bancroft

US Historian and Statesman

(1800-1891)

{They don't make them this good anymore......}

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed

than the prejudices of interest;

the first are all blindly adopted,

the second willfully preferred.

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Like truth and justice it lives within us;

like virtue and the moral law

it is a companion of the soul.

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls,

which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself,

were it possible.

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Groucho Marx

All people are born alike - except

Republicans and Democrats.

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Today, we could also add~~except

Conservatives and Liberals.

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