Quotation Archives
| Week of September 29, 2008 |
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[As a Naval aviator in Vietnam] I liked to bend a few rules and pick a few fights, but I did it for my own pleasure, my own pride. I didn’t think there was a cause that was more important than me. [But] I was blessed by misfortune. On an October morning... I found myself falling toward the middle of a small lake in the city of Hanoi, with two broken arms, a broken leg, and an angry crowd waiting to greet me. I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. I was never the same again; I wasn’t my own man anymore; I was my country’s.
“I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.” —John McCain
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"Barack Obama has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the State Senate. This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word “victory,” except when he’s talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed... when the roar of the crowd fades away... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot—what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger... take more of your money... give you more orders from Washington... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world." —Sarah Palin
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“Ultimately, the choice before the American people is the choice between two visions: on the one hand, the policies of limited government, economic growth, a strong defense, and a firm foreign policy; and on the other hand, policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness and accommodation, and always, always, from them, ‘Blame America first.’ It’s the choice between the policies of liberalism or the policies of America’s political mainstream.” —Ronald Reagan
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| Week of September 1, 2008 |
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“There are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the ‘race’ of the decent man and the ‘race’ of the indecent man.” —Viktor Frankl |
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“The overwhelming votes for Obama in some virtually all-white states show that many Americans are ready to move beyond race. But Obama himself wants to have it both ways, by attributing racist notions to the McCain camp that has never made race an issue. The problem with clever people is that they don’t know when to stop being clever—and Senator Obama is a very clever man, perhaps ‘too clever by half’ as the British say.” —Thomas Sowell
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“You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”
—Ronald Reagan |
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| Week of August 11, 2008 |
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“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.” —William F. Buckley
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“Here’s the record when it comes to Georgia. Obama, on learning of the Soviet invasion, played it cool. It was ‘important... for all sides to show restraint.’ McCain, by contrast, demanded that Russia ‘immediately and unconditionally’ pull its forces out of Georgia... McCain... understood the stakes in the affair... Does Obama understand...?” —William Murchison
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“I have always believed that America is strongest and freest and happiest when it is truest to the wisdom of its Founders. In Federalist 45, James Madison wrote that ‘The powers delegated by the Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Government are numerous and indefinite.’ Or to put it another way, ‘We the People.’ As long as we remember these words—’We the People’ —and make them our guide, so long as we remember that America has always drawn its inspiration from the people and has always been governed best when governed most by those governments closest to the people, America will remain strong and free, the envy of the world.” —Ronald Reagan |
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| Week of August 4, 2008 |
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“Democracies are most commonly corrupted by the insolence of demagogues.” —Aristotle
"demogogue - n. one who arouses followers by appeals to emotion or prejudice" -- Webster's Pocket Dictionary, c. 2002
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“Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted ‘present’ nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.” —Charles Krauthammer
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“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business... frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.” -- Ronald Reagan |
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| Week of July 28, 2008 |
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“If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.” —Theodore Roosevelt |
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“[Barack Obama will] be able to have the opportunity to see the success of the surge. It is a success. This is the same strategy that he voted against, railed against... He should admit he was wrong about the surge.” —John McCain
“At this point it would take a willing suspension of disbelief to put any trust in the military judgment of... Barack Obama.” —Paul Greenberg
“To say you’re going to get out on a certain schedule—regardless of what the Iraqis do, regardless of what our enemies do, regardless of what is happening on the ground—is the height of absurdity.” —Michael O’Hanlon, Democrat foreign policy analyst at the liberal Brookings Institute
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“We know that peace is the condition under which mankind was meant to flourish. Yet peace does not exist of its own will. It depends on us, on our courage to build it and guard it and pass it on to future generations. George Washington’s words may seem hard and cold today, but history has proven him right again and again. ‘To be prepared for war,’ he said, ‘is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.’ Well, to those who think strength provokes conflict, Will Rogers had his own answer. He said of the world heavyweight champion of his day: ‘I’ve never seen anyone insult Jack Dempsey’.” —Ronald Reagan |
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| Week of July 21, 2008 |
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“You want to make every pundit look bad? Then stand tall for what you believe. Don’t be shy. You want to stun the establishment? Then become a mighty force for conservative principles, and tackle the task with confidence and cheer... This may be a time of testing. But it’s not our swan song. Not by a long shot. Instead... this is our moment. This is the time to do what we do best—turn adversity into strength.” —the late Tony Snow, former White House Press Secretary |
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“Senator Obama is not just tacking gently toward the center. He’s lurching right when it suits him, he’s zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.” —New York Times columnist Bob Herbert
“Whenever Obama moves ‘to the middle,’ it is not to stay there, but to collect new voters and bring them back with him to the Left.” —George Neumayr
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"As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it--now or ever." — President Ronald Reagan in his First Inauguration speech |
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