conservative by nature's favorite Quotes

Cheerfulness

2008-07-18T07:03:00.000-07:00

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the
mind, lubricates our inward machinery,
and enables us to do our work with fewer
creaks and groans.

If people were universally cheerful, probably
there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a
tenth part of the wickedness there is.

Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and
immortality. Cheerful people live longest
here on earth, afterward in our hearts.

~Anonymous~

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Changes

2008-07-18T07:02:00.000-07:00

Change does not come until someone gets mad.

Those trying to bring change will make mad those
who do not want change.

~Myles Monroe~

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The End of Your Rope

2008-07-17T07:02:00.000-07:00

The end of your rope is a very holy place.
~Author Unknown~

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Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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Political Pundits

2008-03-06T00:20:00.000-08:00

Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member
of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax
itself into prosperity is like a
man standing in a bucket and trying
to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill

Democracy must be something more
than two wolves and a sheep voting on what
to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

A government which robs Peter to pay
Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw

Foreign aid might be defined as a
transfer of money from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of
Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government
is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

A liberal is someone who feels a great
debt to his fellow man, which debt he
proposes to pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy

Government is the great fiction,
through which everybody endeavors to live
at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist
(1801-1850)

Government's view of the economy
could be summed up in a few short
phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,
regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive
now, wait until you see what it costs
when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke

In general, the art of government consists
of taking as much money as
possible from one party of the citizens
to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an
interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is
safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866 )

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary
canal, with a happy appetite at
one end and no responsibility at
the other.
-Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is
the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is
the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man
and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men
from the effects of folly is to fill
the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English
Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly Native American
criminal class...save Congress.
-Mark Twain

What this country needs are more
unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

A government big enough to give you
everything you want, is strong enough to
take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

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Let Freedom Ring

2008-03-06T00:02:00.000-08:00

Our country is still young and its
potential is still enormous.

We should remember, as we look
toward the future, that the more fully
we believe in and achieve freedom
and equal opportunity, not simply for
ourselves but for others, the greater
our accomplishments as a nation will be.

~Henry Ford II~

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I love old movies. I think Hollywood made some
exceptionally fine ones. I was thrilled to find this
gem at my local library!

"The Son of Monte' Cristo" @1941

Baron Von Neuhoff upon his rescue from
the dungeon:

"...I shouldn't have but for Monte Cristo
who is living proof that if justice is
crushed in one land, men will spring to
its defense in every land. For the spirit of
justice creates a common brotherhood."

Gen. Gurko Laven trying to force the
Queen Zona into marriage by threatening
an alliance with Russia who will ensure
HE IS KING regardless:

"Part of diplomacy lies in the fact that
the people never discover the truth until
it is too late."

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The General learned he was WRONG.
Pray God, our nation will also never
learn the truth too late......

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Working for a Living

2008-03-05T23:02:00.000-08:00

Anyone who sees in his own occupation
merely a means of earning money degrades it;

but he that sees in it a service to mankind
ennobles both his labor and himself.

~A. Lawrence Lowell~

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Charles Dickens

2007-09-08T14:02:00.000-07:00

Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty,
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

~Charles Dickens~

C~B~N's Favorite Old-Time Author

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Walter Lippman

2007-08-11T07:01:00.007-07:00

journalist (1889-1974)

Very few established institutions,
governments and constitutions
are ever destroyed by their enemies
until they have been corrupted and
weakened by their friends.

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The Sword and The Spirit

2007-08-11T07:01:00.005-07:00

There are only two forces in the world,
the sword and the spirit.

In the long run the sword will always
be conquered by the spirit.

~Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)~

If he knew that then what the hell were the
Napoleanic wars FOR??? Oh, yeah, I forget....
he's just human and subject to GREED for
wealth and power......

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A Strange Situation

2007-08-11T07:01:00.003-07:00

Strange is our situation here upon earth.
Each of us comes for a short visit,
not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming
to a divine purpose.

From the standpoint of daily life,
however, there is one thing we do know:
That we are here for the sake of others...
for the countless unknown souls with
whose fate we are connected by a bond of
sympathy.

Many times a day, I realize how much
my outer and inner life is built upon
the labors of people, both living and dead,
and how earnestly I must exert myself
in order to give in return as much
as I have received.

~Albert Einstein~

from a Mountain Wings Moment
#7197
Wings Over The Mountains of Life

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In Everything

2007-08-11T07:01:00.001-07:00

“In everything that I have created, your pain,
your struggles and your disappointments,
there is beauty.

In everything the devil has created, even
that which appears to be beautiful,
is at its core, ugly.”

~God~

from the sermon, “See the Beauty”
for Windows Media player: See the Beauty

Read it here also contains an Ipod link.

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Cicero

2006-10-01T21:07:00.000-07:00

Religion is indispensable to private morals and public order ... and no man of sense will attack it.

{Guess there are few men of sense anymore}

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Anonymous said...
And there are still idiots like you who believe that Iraq was responsible for 9/11?!?

~~I'm not quite sure HOW the above commentor linked this to my quote of Cicero?! But I'll afford him or her the right to voice their comments. I just think it is SAD, however, that they are so intolerant of other viewpoints that this individual must resort to name calling....i.e. the idiot reference. Only those with limited viewpoints AND vocabularies have to resort to name-calling.

C'est la vie.

C~B~N

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Oscar Wilde

2006-09-07T17:09:00.000-07:00

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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Abraham Lincoln

2006-09-07T16:43:00.000-07:00

The philosophy of a school room
in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbor to compromise whenever you can. As a peace-maker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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Theodore Roosevelt

2006-06-05T15:08:00.000-07:00

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.

But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.

We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

1907

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Patrick Henry

2006-06-02T15:52:00.000-07:00

U.S. patriot
(1736-1799)

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

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Some More Favorites

2006-06-02T15:33:00.000-07:00

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
~~Thomas Hardy, English writer ~~

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
~~Walt Whitman, U.S. poet ~~

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
~~Lady Mary Wortley, English writer ~~

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
~~Margaret Fuller, U.S. writer ~~

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
~~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer ~~

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Harry S. Truman

2006-05-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

U.S. president
(1884-1972)

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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This is WHY when attacked, we don't just "rent" our clothes and weep and wail. We mourn, but we get up and stop the would be oppressors. Japan learned this in WWII after Pearl Harbor; Iraq (and their brethren) is learning this now after the attack on the Twin Towers.

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Honore de Balzac

2006-05-21T21:03:00.001-07:00

French writer
(1799-1850)

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. {C~B~N would add bankers, car mechanics, & politicians!}

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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Sir James M. Barrie

2006-05-21T21:03:00.000-07:00

Scottish writer
(1860-1937)

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

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Dante Alighieri

2006-05-21T19:58:00.000-07:00

Italian writer
(1265-1321)

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

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Stephen R Covey

2006-05-19T00:09:00.000-07:00

We are not human beings on a

spiritual journey.

We are spiritual beings on a

human journey.

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Katherine Anne Porter

2006-05-19T00:07:00.000-07:00

U.S. writer
(1890-1980)

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation {SIN} sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism {self-denial} was supposed to give and quite often did not.

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Audrey Hepburn

2006-05-04T17:55:00.000-07:00

A Classy Lady all the way.

American actor
(1929-1993)

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Dear Friends: In light of the recent Tsunami disaster, the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund has donated $100,000 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in order to aid in the care and protection of the children involved in this recent disaster. We feel fortunate to have been able to help in this dire emergency and hope to be prepared to do so again in the future.

Donations to help the Fund recoup this emergency donation would be gratefully accepted and deeply appreciated. You may contribute directly through the Website or by mailing a contribution to:

Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund

710 Wilshire Boulevard -

Suite 600

Santa Monica, CA 90401

As a reminder, contributions are tax deductible and an acknowledgement letter will be mailed to you immediately.

Best regards and thanks,

Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Chairman & Founder, Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund

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James Monroe

2006-05-04T17:50:00.000-07:00

American president
(1758-1831)

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.

The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. (From the Monroe Doctrine) {Or Islamic powers....African powers....Mexican powers.....Pick your powers.....}

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

2006-04-29T17:49:00.000-07:00

US Civil Rights Leader
(1929-1968)

“And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination against Jews, my friend, because they are Jews. In short, it is antisemitism. The antisemite rejoices at any opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the antisemite must constantly seek new forms and forums for his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He does not hate the Jews, he is just 'anti-Zionist'!”

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

A right delayed is a right denied.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

The time is ALWAYS right to do what is right.

Injustice ANYWHERE is a threat to justice EVERYWHERE.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

{How can ALL those "liberals" who supposedly marched with King have forgotten so much of what he believed; stood for; and SAID???????}

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Mary Harris (Mother) Jones

2006-04-28T13:08:00.000-07:00

American labor agitator
(1830-1930)

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. {What is it the younger generation says? "You go, girl?" !!}

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. {Oh NO, this means turning the stupid boob tube off......}

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. {There has ALWAYS been two sets of "laws" in this country. If you're poor AND a minority, you don't have a chance in hades to be judged by that other set of laws......}

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Quotes of the Infamous

2006-04-28T05:00:00.000-07:00

Adolph Hitler
German dictator
(1889-1945)

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. (The Sh-eeple syndrome)

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God {Delusional too.....wonder how he reconciled the fact that Jesus IS Jewish????} and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. {Sound familiar? It is being practiced today on Americans.....}

This year will go down in history for the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future. {Right to bear arms needs to be protected.....or you are at the mercy of whatever entity is in power.}

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. {Too bad he didn't have any.....well, of the right kind....I'm sure satan was pleased with Hitler's progress/worship.}

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. {The Lord's Chosen People murdered just as his Jewish son was murdered.....even the Judas's have their place....}

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Johann S. Bach

2006-04-27T22:27:00.000-07:00

German composer and organist
(1685-1750)

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

I have always kept one end in view, namely, with all good will to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

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Germany~~

A nation who gave us musicians that were inspired.

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Handel
Pachelbel
{Just to name a few of MY favorites!}

A nation that nurtured Martin Luther who started the Protestant Reformation by nailing the 95 theses on a church door.

A nation that shared the tradition of the Christmas tree.....

....and who gave us one of the most memorable Christmas hymns, "Silent Night, Holy Night".

How then, could a Christian people allow Nazis among their midst? To allow them to come to power? To allow them to commit the atrocities that were committed?

"We didn't know"......is a collective lie~~that needs to be renounced. It would have been better to go to death speaking out against evil than to live by remaining silent then. It would be better to admit the mistake of not speaking out than to continue the lie of denial now.

Today, in nations around the world, there are persecutions of Christians, and the world remains silent once again. Voice of the Martyrs

This is why EVIL appears to be triumphing. But it is a fleeting triumph. The battles may be won......but the war is already lost.

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Lord Oliver Cromwell

2006-04-26T06:08:00.000-07:00

English Lord Protector
(1599-1658)

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that He has not planted.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

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William Shakespeare

2006-04-24T15:08:00.000-07:00

English writer
(1564-1616)

{Could this explain our "discontent"? Wishing inappropriately for things......?}

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

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For my Father...

2006-04-18T04:57:00.000-07:00

who served 32 years in the United States Air Force and flew for over 2 decades....

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

~~Leonardo da Vinci~~

(1452-1519)
Italian artist, writer, inventor, and philosopher

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Thomas Jefferson

2006-04-18T03:59:00.000-07:00

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. {Which is why we were started as a REPUBLIC!}

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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Jane Goodall

2006-04-11T04:59:00.000-07:00

English ethologist
(1934- )

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. {Perserverance and determination will take you far in life.}

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. {And our way of life...}

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

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Edward Everett

2006-04-11T00:56:00.000-07:00

American educator
(1794-1865)

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. {Well, it USE to be anyway.....now? We "taught" Americans that their nation is a democracy when in fact it WAS a Republic. There is a big difference between the two.....and a democracy is NOT what you want. The education "system" is broken. Throwing more money at it and developing more programs is not going to fix it either. Our children are graduating illiterate with no idea on how to defend their freedoms or even what freedoms need to be defended.}

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. {Therefore, I blog!}

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More Great Thoughts

2006-03-28T00:10:00.000-08:00

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

2006-03-27T22:15:00.000-08:00

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

2006-03-27T22:07:00.000-08:00

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

2006-03-27T22:00:00.000-08:00

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

2006-03-27T21:27:00.000-08:00

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

2006-03-10T08:22:00.000-08:00

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

2006-03-02T09:59:00.000-08:00

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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United States Supreme Court

2006-02-26T22:22:00.000-08:00

from Agape Press
If truth is not tolerated, freedom is no longer free. To maintain our freedom we must fight for truth. Suppression never works.

from 60 years ago......

...compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

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George Washington

2006-02-25T16:33:00.000-08:00

You cannot have a national morality apart from religious principals.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. {Uh, what happened? Cause liberals sure DON'T feel this way....}

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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John Foster Dulles

2006-02-25T16:21:00.001-08:00

U.S. Secretary of State
(1888-1959)

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

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Chester William Nimitz

2006-02-25T16:21:00.000-08:00

American admiral
(1885-1966)

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

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Misc

2006-02-17T23:38:00.000-08:00

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. If it is, then we should have it, if it is not, then we ought not to pretend that we have it.
~~Anna Shaw (1847-1919) American woman-suffrage leader ~~

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
~~Vice President Dick Cheney~~

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
~~President John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States~~

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
~~Joseph Campbell, American Writer~~

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~~Gertrude Stein, American author ~~

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
~~Boris Pasternak, Russian Author (1890-1960)~~

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Galileo Galilei

2006-02-17T23:21:00.001-08:00

Italian Astronomer
(1564-1642)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

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Michael Jordan

2006-02-17T23:21:00.000-08:00

American Basketball Player
(1963- )

I never thought a role model should be negative.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

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Thomas Edison

2006-02-11T04:20:00.000-08:00

American Inventor
(1847-1931)

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Accordingly, a "genius" is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. {Determination and perseverence will take you farther in life...}

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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Rosa Lee Parks

2006-02-10T01:20:00.000-08:00

American civil-rights activist
(1913-2005)

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

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Ronald Reagan

2006-02-09T01:34:00.000-08:00

American President
(1911-2004)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

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Frederick Douglass

2006-02-09T01:30:00.000-08:00

American Abolitionist
(1817-1895)

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

One and God make a majority.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

2006-02-09T01:19:00.000-08:00

American General
(1820-1891)

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. (I'm sorry, this one just made me LOL. Guess the beast hasn't changed much....)

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish. (Guess neither beast, political or media, has changed all that much....)

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Jackie Robinson

2006-01-31T08:40:00.000-08:00

American baseball player
(1919-1972)

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

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Douglas MacArthur

2006-01-30T22:36:00.000-08:00

American General
(1880-1964)

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Americans never quit.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

2006-01-27T21:55:00.000-08:00

American President
(1882-1945)

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2006-01-27T21:51:00.000-08:00

Austrian Composer
(1756-1791)

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

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Daniel Webster

2006-01-20T02:01:00.000-08:00

American Statesman
(1782-1852)

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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Albert Schweitzer

2006-01-14T01:00:00.000-08:00

Alsatian Medical Missionary
(1875-1965)

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

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George Foreman

2006-01-14T00:31:00.000-08:00

American Boxer
(1949- )

I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.

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Alexander Hamilton

2006-01-14T00:15:00.000-08:00

American statesman
(1755-1804)

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. [Think they have FAILED this one.]

In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. [They have this one down to perfection....makes one wonder, does it not?]

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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Elmer Davis

2006-01-14T00:03:00.000-08:00

US newspaperman, radio commentator, and author
(1890-1958)

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

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Saint Francis of Assisi

2006-01-09T20:15:00.000-08:00

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;

To be understood as to understand;

To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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Sir Isaac Newton

2006-01-06T21:03:00.001-08:00

English mathematician and physicist
(1642-1727)

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

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George Washington Carver

2006-01-06T21:03:00.000-08:00

US agricultural chemist
(1864-1903)

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

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Andrew Johnson

2005-12-29T15:13:00.001-08:00

17th President of the United States
(1808-1875)

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country. (So, what have they done? Killed the Middle Class~~the backbone of any nation. Ending up with a nation of rich and poor.)

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing .

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Woodrow Wilson

2005-12-29T15:13:00.000-08:00

28th President of the United States
(1856-1924)

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

2005-12-20T15:12:00.003-08:00

American Poet
(1807-1892)

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

God's colors all are fast.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

2005-12-20T15:12:00.002-08:00

Soviet leader
(1906-1982)

God will not forgive us if we fail. (!!)

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

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Lady Bird Johnson

2005-12-20T15:12:00.001-08:00

Businessperson, First Lady of President Lyndon Johnson
(1912- )

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

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Sir Noel Coward

2005-12-20T15:12:00.000-08:00

English playwright
(1899-1973)

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

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Branch Rickey

2005-12-20T15:00:00.000-08:00

American baseball executive
(1881-1965)

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

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I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.

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Texas

2005-12-15T23:17:00.000-08:00

Rules to Enter Texas:

Applies to each person as they enter Texas.

Learn & remember:

East Coast and California-types pay particular attention!

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Let's get this straight; it's called a "gravel road." I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.

3. They are cattle & oil wells. That's what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? I-20 and I-10 go east and west, I-35 goes north. Pick one.

4. So you have a $60,000 car. We're impressed. We have $250,000 cotton strippers that are driven only 3 weeks a year.

5. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.

6. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of doves are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

7. Yeah, we eat catfish & crawfish. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.

8. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.

9. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.

10. No, there's no "vegetarian special" on the menu.Order steak. Or you can order the Chef's Salad and pick
off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.

11. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and Picante Sauce. Oh, yeah.... We don't care what you folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat... It AINT REAL CHILI!! Chili was born and bred in San Antonio....and real chili never met a tomato!

12. You bring "coke" into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice. You bring "Mary Jane" into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

13. College and High School Football is as important here as the Lakers and the Knicks, and a dang site more fun to watch.

14. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards - it spooks the fish.

15. Colleges? Try Texas, Texas A&M or Texas Tech. They come outta there with an education plus a love for God and country, and they still wave at passing pickups when they come for the holidays.

16. We have more folks in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, than any other state, so "Don't Mess with Texas". If you do, it will get you whipped by the best.

17. Always remember what our great governor Sam Houston once said:

"Texas can make it without the United States, but the
United States can't make it without Texas."

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

2005-12-12T19:43:00.000-08:00

Russian Writer
(1918- )

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

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Noam Chomsky

2005-12-07T19:41:00.000-08:00

U.S. educator and linguist
(1928-)

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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Thomas Carlyle

2005-12-06T20:38:00.000-08:00

English author
(1795-1881)

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

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Martin Van Buren

2005-12-06T20:33:00.000-08:00

8th President of the United States
(1782-1862)

To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government. {Wow, what a concept: the government appropriating funds ONLY for that which it is ALLOWED to do!}

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

There is a power in public opinion in this country and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

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Ira Gershwin

2005-12-06T20:29:00.000-08:00

Lyricist

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

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Winston Churchill

2005-11-30T09:10:00.000-08:00

British Statesman, Soldier, and Author
(1874-1965)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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Andrew Carnegie

2005-11-29T20:39:00.000-08:00

US industrialist and philanthropist
(1835-1919)

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

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Charles M. Schulz

2005-11-29T20:31:00.000-08:00

U.S. Cartoonist
(1922-2000)

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. (LOL, some days I really understand this! Most days I don't!)

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Clive Staples Lewis

2005-11-29T20:24:00.001-08:00

English Author
(1898-1963)

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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President Franklin Pierce

2005-11-23T09:21:00.000-08:00

14th President

(1804-1869)

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

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Charles de Gaulle

2005-11-22T08:53:00.000-08:00

(1890-1970)
French General and Statesman

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

(Umm, so is this where we tell 'France' and everyone else who hates America to "shut the heck up"?)

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. (True to 'politicians' as well!)

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Noah Webster

2005-11-18T19:44:00.000-08:00

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles....This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government."

(Noah Webster, History of the United States, 1832, public school textbook.)

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Robert Louis Stevenson

2005-11-14T07:26:00.000-08:00

Scottish Novelist and Poet
(1850-1894)

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences

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Alexis de Tocqueville

2005-11-11T17:57:00.000-08:00

I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad .... Its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress ....

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Martin Luther

2005-11-10T22:26:00.000-08:00

Germany Leader of the Protestant Reformation
(1483-1546)

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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Pauline Phillips

2005-11-10T22:20:00.000-08:00

The Original "Dear Abby"

Defines Maturity As

To be able to stick with a job until it's finished;
to do one's duty without being supervised;
to be able to carry money without spending it;
and to be able to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

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Educational Quotes

2005-11-08T23:49:00.000-08:00

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Charles P. Steinmetz

Only the educated are FREE.

Epictetus

Give me a fish and I eat for a day, teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.

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I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books, than a king who did not love reading.
Thomas B. Macauley

I cannot live without books. {Do I hear any AMENS out there?}

Thomas Jefferson

One Liners

2005-11-08T23:41:00.000-08:00

Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you NOTHING~~it was here first.

R.J. Burdette

To do FOR the WORLD more than the world does for you~~that is success.

Henry Ford

Try NOT to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of VALUE.

Albert Einstein

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Lord Chesterfield

We are here TO ADD what we can TO, NOT GET what we can from LIFE.

Sir William Osler

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Albert Camus

2005-11-08T23:31:00.000-08:00

French writer
(1913-1960)

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. {Ah, so this explains why the leftist media puppets ARE so terrible...}

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. {Explains the many angry people today on our planet.}

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President James K. Polk

2005-11-06T18:30:00.000-08:00

11th President
(1795-1849)

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of Government myself rather than entrust the public business to subord. {Must have been when there were only a dozen government employees......instead of millions; oh, where did we go wrong?}

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. {Don't tell me this country was NOT founded by religious men. The proof is in their own words and writing.}

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. {This means Christians too......}

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Will Rogers

2005-11-06T18:26:00.000-08:00

U.S. Humorist and Actor
(1879-1935)

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

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Stephen Crane

2005-11-01T16:04:00.000-08:00

U.S. Writer
"The Red Badge of Courage"
(1871-1900)

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

(See, the universe does NOT revolve around you....or me....or anyone. It revolves around us all. Each man and woman, in their own unique way is special. One is NOT more important than another.)

You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

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John Adams

2005-11-01T15:53:00.000-08:00

2nd U.S. President (Father of President Samuel Adams)

(1735-1826)

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

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Theodore Roosevelt

2005-10-27T14:38:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-27T14:21:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-25T12:04:00.000-07:00

(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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conservative by nature's favorite Quotes

Cheerfulness

Changes

The End of Your Rope

Political Pundits

Let Freedom Ring

Working for a Living

Charles Dickens

Walter Lippman

The Sword and The Spirit

A Strange Situation

In Everything

Cicero

Oscar Wilde

Abraham Lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt

Patrick Henry

Some More Favorites

Harry S. Truman

Honore de Balzac

Sir James M. Barrie

Dante Alighieri

Stephen R Covey

Katherine Anne Porter

Audrey Hepburn

James Monroe

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mary Harris (Mother) Jones

Quotes of the Infamous

Johann S. Bach

Lord Oliver Cromwell

William Shakespeare

For my Father...

Thomas Jefferson

Jane Goodall

Edward Everett

More Great Thoughts

Andrew Jackson

James Madison

Grover Cleveland

Sandra Day O'Connor

Clare Boothe Luce

Benjamin Franklin

United States Supreme Court

George Washington

John Foster Dulles

Chester William Nimitz

~~Misc~~

Galileo Galilei

Michael Jordan

Thomas Edison

Rosa Lee Parks

Ronald Reagan

Frederick Douglass

William Tecumseh Sherman

Jackie Robinson

Douglas MacArthur

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Daniel Webster

Albert Schweitzer

George Foreman

Alexander Hamilton

Elmer Davis

Saint Francis of Assisi

Sir Isaac Newton

George Washington Carver

Andrew Johnson

Woodrow Wilson

John Greenleaf Whittier

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

Lady Bird Johnson

Sir Noel Coward

Branch Rickey

Texas

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Noam Chomsky

Thomas Carlyle

Martin Van Buren

Ira Gershwin

Misc