More Great Thoughts

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. {Evolutionists, take heed!}
~Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American theoretical physicist~

In "Politica-lese":

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
~William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) American political leader ~

In "Common" sense: Don't count your chickens before your eggs hatch!
~~~C~B~N~~~

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
~Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Norwegian dramatist and poet~

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) American Jurist~

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. {Ummm, guess the BIBLE was right~~we REAP what we SOW.}
~Luther Burbank (1849-1926) American Horticulturist~

A friend of mine once retorted to a woman in a restaurant who asked her if she always spoke to her child like he was a rocket scientist, "Of course! How else can I expect him to grow up to be one?"
~~ from Dear Abby column ~~

Liberals, take note:

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
~Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) German revolutionary~

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
~~Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) American Writer~~

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Andrew Jackson

U.S. President
(1767-1845)

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.


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James Madison

U.S. President
(1751-1836)

Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. {This is why the nation was started as a Republic! NOT a democracy.}

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. {Take heed liberals.....}

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. {The frog in a pan of water syndrome.}

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. {Which is why the "dumbing" down of America in her public schools WAS necessary.}

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. {CAN WE SAY "PATRIOT ACT"????????????}

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Grover Cleveland

American President
(1837-1908)

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. {Ha! They just get greedier......}

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
{I've been saying this for years...our leaders in the nation's capital seem to have forgotten that THEY ARE THE EMPLOYEES; WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE THE EMPLOYERS.}

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. {The delusion that America is a democracy....begins.}



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Sandra Day O'Connor

U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
(1930- )

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.


Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. {Or lack thereof...}

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. {Family.....not village. This, satan has known and has used to his advantage.....destroying the family, destroys civilization.}

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. {Nor should the courts be making law....the legislative branch was designed for that.}

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Clare Boothe Luce

American playwright and diplomat
(1903-1987)

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. {Keeping up with the Jones'~~now on TV, radio, Ipods........And still happiness is elusive!}

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

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Benjamin Franklin

American Statesman
(1706-1790)

A small leak can sink a great ship.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.


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