"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of
selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpertrated by disciples of altruism?"
Ayn Rand
"A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue."
"We all
know our duty better than we discharge it."
John Randolph
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."
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"You don't want to just carelessly go out and maybe kill innocent
people. Then you're as bad as the terrorists."
11/27/1984, The Washington Times
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price
of aggression is cheap."
"The First Continental Congress
made
its first act a prayer, the beginning of a
great tradition. We have
then
a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear:
That
in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is
prayer."
"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ... [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
"We stand here on the only island
of
freedom that is left in the whole
world. There is no place left
to
flee to ... no place to escape to. We defend freedom here or it
is
gone. There is no place for us to run, only to make a
stand.
And if we fail, I think we face telling our children, and our
children's
children, what it was we found more precious than freedom.
Because
I am sure someday -- if we fail in this -- there will be a generation
that
will ask."
"A country that cannot control its borders isn't really a country any more."
"Our Declaration of Independence has been copied by emerging nations around the globe, its themes adopted in places many of us have never heard of. Here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights. We the people declared that government is created by the people for their own convenience. Government has no power except those voluntarily granted it by the people. There have been revolutions before and since ours, revolutions that simply exchanged one set of rulers for another. Ours was a philosophical revolution that changed the very concept of government."
"Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root."
"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."
"While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful, the first thought was thanksgiving to God. Prayer is today as powerful a force in our nation as it has ever been. We as a nation should never forget this source of strength."
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
"Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook."
"To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions everyday; I say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny."
"One day in 1968...the state finance director came to my office to tell me...he expected the state to have a budget surplus of more than $100 million the following fiscal year.... No legislators knew about the projected surplus yet and he asked me if I had any ideas on how I wanted to spend it.... I think you ought to decide now (he said) before the legislature hears about the money and starts thinking of its own ways of spending it. I already know what we should do with the money, I said. Let's give it back to the people, give them a tax rebate.... When the legislators heard that, they went wild. But it was too late; the people knew about the surplus. They wanted it back -- and they got it back."
in "An American Life"
"When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause."
"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."
"I have orders to be awakened at any time in the case of a national emergency, even if I'm in a
cabinet meeting."
"A people free to choose will always choose peace."
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think
conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals. If we were
back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the
liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government
interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general
description also of what libertarianism is."
"Someone must stand up to those who say, 'Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many
of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.'"
"The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are
just as important today as 200 years ago. And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government
shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says 'The right of the people to
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'"
"Maybe two years ago, I got rid of cable, reasoning that while the world might be full of idiots, I wasn't going to pay $40 a month to look at them."
"These days, air travel makes me look longingly at Greyhound buses. It makes me look longingly at being dragged behind a motorcycle."
Fred Reed
"Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who
have somehow come into possession of the levers of power."
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
Thomas Brackett Reed, (1839-1902, American legislator)
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"History affirms this. The reason America did not follow the usual path of revolution to dictatorship was solely the result of the character of one man, George Washington. Washington could have easily made himself dictator, and many of the officers in his army wanted him to do just that. But Washington's character would not allow it. When the elite who run a country have good morals and high standards, then you have a good country. If the elite become corrupt, you have a corrupt country. The vulgarity, profanity and violence you see in entertainment are there only because those individuals occupying the positions of power in the entertainment industry said 'Yes.' If they said 'No,' those things would disappear from the screens and the magazine racks." |
"The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire."
"Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common folk. ...Nevertheless, if the urban insane wish to be prey for predators, that's their privilege. But no one has the right to tell someone else that he or she cannot possess the tools necessary to defend his or her life and the lives of loved ones."
"Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution."
"It is, to be blunt, stupid to talk about homeland defense without tightening our borders. The immigration laws and the Immigration and Naturalization Service are a disgrace and have been for years. Yet the president dances around this question, I suppose, lest he offend his friend, the president of Mexico. If you can't keep illegal immigrants out, you can't keep terrorists out; if you can't track people who come in on a visa, you can't track terrorists who come in on a visa."
"The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die."
"For all the hoopla one hears today about the Confederate flag, the truth is that the issue that divides most Americans is exactly the same one that once split the country. No, it isn't slavery, race, homosexuality, abortion or any of the other current topics. It's simply this: Where should the power reside, with us and through us, our elected officials at the city, county and state levels, or should it reside in Washington?"
"We...are not
really free if we can't control our own government
and its
policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant."
"The politicians
in this world... have at their command weapons of mass
destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes."
"Congress seems to want to cure
every ill known to man
except unconstitutional government and high taxes."
"It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune.
If malice or envy were
tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
"Government
is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it
will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible."
"Those
who profess to be Christians should ask themselves what Jesus would
think of condoning the mass murder of children.
I think he would look at their mangled and torn little bodies, hear
their screams and then slam the door of heaven in the face of everybody
who had anything to do with it."
Whoa, Walter!,
Sept. 4, 2006
"Most
Democrats are leftists and socialists, and most of their rhetoric
reflects that, as do the issues they support. Most Republicans,
however, are big fat hypocrites who campaign as conservatives when in
fact, judged by their actions and their votes, they are no more conservative than Pol Pot or Karl Marx."
Congressional
Republicans, Sept. 5, 2006
"The
universal franchise is a bad idea. The notion that the destiny of the
nation should be put in the hands of ignoramuses, parasites, boobs,
party hacks and idiots is absurd on its face."
"No, I don't have any regrets. Not about one damned thing. I've had a lot of good experiences in my life, and they far outnumber the bad. Good memories are the greatest thing in the world, and I've got a lot of those. And one of the sweetest is of the kid standing out on the green grass in center field, with the winning runs on base, saying to himself, 'Hit it to me. Hit it to me.'" Pete Reiser, former Major League outfielder |
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"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
Jules Renard, writer (1864 - 1910)
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Jules Renard
"The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."
Agnes Repplier
"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
Agnes Repplier
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
Agnes Repplier
"It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh."
Agnes Repplier
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
Agnes Repplier
"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift
contact with tingling currents of thought."
Agnes Repplier
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
Agnes Repplier
"The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he
does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced."
Agnes Repplier
"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them."
Agnes Repplier
"There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join."
"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to
our whim."
James Reston
"The real issue involved in the relations between the North and the South of the American States,
is the great principle of self-government. Shall a dominant party of the North rule the South, or
shall the people of the South rule themselves. This is the great matter in controversy."
Robert Barnwell Rhett, Montgomery, Alabama, 1860
Game Called. Across the field of play
the dusk has come, the hour is late.
The fight is done and lost or won,
the player files out through the gate.
The tumult dies, the cheer is hushed,
the stands are bare, the park is still.
But through the night there shines the light,
home beyond the silent hill.
Game Called. Where in the golden light
the bugle rolled the reveille.
The shadows creep where night falls deep,
and taps has called the end of play.
The game is done, the score is in,
the final cheer and jeer have passed.
But in the night, beyond the fight,
the player finds his rest at last.
Game Called. Upon
the field of life
the darkness
gathers far and wide,
the dream is
done, the score is spun
that stands
forever in the guide.
Nor victory,
nor yet defeat
is chalked
against the players name.
But down the
roll, the final scroll,
shows only
how he played the game.
Grantland Rice,
from The Fireside Book of Baseball, 1956
"The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness
toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth toward the cold, philanthropy toward
the misanthropic."
Jean Paul Richter, (1763-1825, German novelist)
"Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens."
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, 09/11/2002
Who is 'we' and how are the citizens theirs? Just askin'. RAB
"The United States has become a country that imports poor people and exports jobs that provide upward mobility. It is a mistake to see the loss of jobs and income as the workings of free trade. The downward pressure on incomes does not result from an exchange of goods. Something different is occurring. Middle class incomes are being traded away in order to gain larger bonuses for top management, and politicians are pandering to the immigrant vote at the expense of lower income native-born citizens. The longer this process continues, the more explosive it becomes, both socially and politically."
"Open borders for terrorists means a police state for citizens."
"We cannot be safe unless we protect our constitutional rights and our borders."
"In the name of 'the war on terrorism,' the U.S. government kills Muslims in Afghanistan who have never lifted a finger against the United States, but refuses to profile Muslims on its own territory who might be planning terrorist incidents."
"Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?"
"Why can't Americans recognize a threat unless it comes with a bomb? Why is hijacking an airliner worse than hijacking our language, culture and territory? When will Americans wake up and realize what it will mean to be submerged in a sea of 'protected minorities' who have been taught to see us as hegemonic oppressors?"
"Some people think I joke when I refer to the empire, but it's true. America is no longer a republic, served by citizen-legislators and citizen-soldiers. It is an empire with professional officials and a mercenary military. The only vestiges of the old republic are in the states. The federal government has become completely imperial."
"What immigration is bringing us is not new citizens, but foreign cultural enclaves. The United States is becoming a Yugoslavia -- an artificial grouping of different ethnicities who will one day be at one another's throats. The fatuous politicians in Washington and the 'open borders' ideologues are importing a bloody future for Americans."
"(I)s the war on terror the right war? Why is bombing Muslims in Afghanistan more important than defending our borders from a silent invasion and defending equality in law from race and gender privileges? On both of these war fronts, the Bush administration is failing abysmally. Even the U.S. armed forces have become bailiwicks of discrimination against white males."
"The United States appears to be in the process of Balkanization, and patriots who object to the loss of cultural identity are dismissed as 'nativists.'"
"Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war."
Washington Times, August 3, 2000 page A20
"Few Americans realize it, but the
Democratic Party adheres to the basic
premise of Marxist political
parties.
The defining characteristic of a Marxist party is class warfare."
"Governments lie all the time - especially
governments staffed by neoconservatives
whose intellectual godfather, Leo
Strauss, taught them that it is permissible to deceive the public
in order to achieve their agenda."
Gullible
Americans, 08/14/2006
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Craig Roberts quotes>
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"Hypocrisy is the
homage which vice pays to virtue." Francois de La Rochefoucauld "The pleasure of love is in loving." "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires." |
"We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire."
"One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
Maximes, 1665
"We pardon as long as we love."
"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk
much and say nothing."
"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot fogive those whom we bore."
"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
"A true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than the others."
"Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most
men are miserable."
"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and
yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."
"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others."
"Let us never forget that
the military is the largest single government
bureaucracy. It produces nothing. It only consumes resources which it
takes
from taxpayers by force of law. Making matters worse, all these
resources
are directed toward the building and maintenance of weapons of mass
destruction
and those who will operate them. .... It does not create wealth. It
diverts
it from more productive uses."
Lew Rockwell
"If
the Devil had a teacher, its name would be war.
War promotes the view that only suckers fall for moral precepts, that
human life is neither here nor there, that private property is nothing
more than what you can grab and keep. This is what makes the claim so
absurd that the US invaded in order to bring about freedom, democracy,
and the rule of law. The war taught the advantages of all the opposite
values. The Iraqis have been fine students of the moral nihilism
unleashed by the US's war on Iraq."
Lew
Rockwell, Immorality,
Inc., 07/31/2006
"American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization -- the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan. "
Lew Rockwell
"Some of the same people who are pleased to finger greed and avarice as the root cause of all accounting problems on Wall Street are loath to consider that similar impulses might inspire politicians and bureaucrats as well."
Lew Rockwell
"[The current presidential saga] demonstrates that the process -- riddled with graft, rigged counts, and media lies -- does not and cannot bring us heaven on earth. For freedom to thrive, we need a depoliticized society, one in which the fate of civilization does not hinge on who is elected. Far more decisive for our future than any election are the ideas that triumph in our nation's intellectual life. That battle makes the Florida vote count look calm."
Lew Rockwell
"Prosperity and economic recovery have their greatest friend in free markets, but their second greatest friend is paralyzed government."
Lew Rockwell
"Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again."
Lew Rockwell
"Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state."
Lew Rockwell
"The suggestion
of
conservatives that the government engage in
all-out war on the world
but otherwise leave people free to manage their own affairs is
completely absurd in every way. It is akin to the demand that one's
left leg march in one direction and the right leg march in the other
direction. If we know how the human body works, we know that this
suggestion is ridiculous. So too, if we know how government works, we
know that a state that is expansionist abroad will never let well
enough alone at home."
"Christmas celebrates the birth of a homeless child."
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents
"I was thinking of when Peter betrayed Jesus three times and Jesus knew it but loved him anyway."
Hillary Rodham-Clinton, explaining why she still loves Bill. In case you missed it, she is "Jesus" in the analogy
Tommy Rogers, An Epistemology for Dominion, p. 80
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do
don't need to be done."
Andy Rooney
"Nothing just happens in politics. If something happens you can be sure it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (1882-1945)
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers
has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 21, 1933 - Source: in a letter written to Colonel E. Mandell House
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew niether victory nor defeat...."
Theodore Roosevelt
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to "The noblest of all forms of government is self-government; but it is also the most difficult." "...[W]e live in a great and
free
country
only because our forefathers were willing to wage war rather than
accept
the peace that spells destruction."
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"The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war."
"Though hardness of heart is a great evil, it is no greater an evil than softness of head."
"Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home."
"The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level."
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.... A hyphenated American is not an American at all... Americanism is a matter of the spirit, and of the soul...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans...each preserving its separate nationality.... The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans.... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American."
"The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing."
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president...."
"No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of well-being and of happiness."
"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
"To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy,
but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing."
"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing
a purse."
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Murray N. Rothbard
"I got out of the Right-wing not
because I ceased believing in liberty, but because being a libertarian
above all, I came to see that the Right-wing specialized in cloaking
its authoritarian and neo-fascist policies in the honeyed words of
libertarian rhetoric. They need you for their libertarian cover; stop
providing it for them!"
Murray Rothbard, 1969
"A group of people may have rights, but it is their responsibility, and theirs alone, to defend or safeguard such rights."
Murray N. Rothbard
"If liberty should be the highest political end, then what is the grounding for that goal? It should be clear ... that, first and foremost, liberty is a moral principle, grounded in the nature of man. In particular, it is a principle of justice, of the abolition of aggressive violence in the affairs of men. Hence, to be grounded and pursued adequately, the libertarian goal must be sought in the spirit of an overriding devotion to justice. But to possess such devotion on what may well be a long and rocky road, the libertarian must be possessed of a passion for justice, an emotion derived from and channeled by his rational insight into what natural justice requires. Justice, not the weak reed of mere utility, must be the motivating force if liberty is to be attained."
Murray N. Rothbard
"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State."
Murray Rothbard
"...[T]here can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position."
Murray Rothbard
"Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents."
Murray Rothbard
"For centuries, the State (or more
strictly, individuals acting in their roles as "members of the
government") has cloaked its criminal activity in high-sounding
rhetoric. For centuries the State has committed mass murder and called
it "war"; then ennobled the mass slaughter that "war" involves. For
centuries the State has enslaved people into its armed battalions and
called it "conscription" in the "national service." For centuries the
State has robbed people at bayonet point and called it "taxation." In
fact, if you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of
its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the
libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place."
Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty
"Without justice, the state (is) nothing but a band of robbers."
Murray Rothbard
Karl Rove, from 'Bush at War' by Bob woodward, p. 338
(Oh, I get it! Might makes right. How very simple! RAB)
"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."
Rita Rudner
"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day
and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."
Rita Rudner
"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
Rita Rudner
"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times."
Rita Rudner
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"Death has a
tendency to encourage a depressing view of war." (Of)fense Secretary Don Rumsfeld (I guess it's really just a light-hearted romp in the park, as long as you're safe in DC. RAB) "It is easier to get into something than to get out of it." Donald Rumsfeld |
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(The
'we' he mentions must be the
warmongers
of the American Empire. RAB)
"Sometimes
the truth is so precious it must be
accompanied by a bodyguard of lies."
"Democracy
is
untidy.
Freedom is untidy. Liberation is untidy."
"Needless
to say, the president is correct. Whatever it was he said."
"Vietnam?
You think you have to tell me about Vietnam? Of course it won't be
Vietnam. We are going to go in, overthrow Saddam, get out. That's it."
to
Air Force Secretary Jim Roche who went to Rumsfeld early on and said,
"Don, you do realize that Iraq could be another Vietnam?" Newsweek
"Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of
experience."
Harold Ruopp
"The only foundation for... a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments."
Benjamin Rush, signed the Declaration of Independence
"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error."
Benjamin Rush
"Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are
incapable of knowing their rights."
Benjamin Rush
"Because the Bible is a command word, it is not designed nor does it seek to satisfy our curiosity, but rather to declare God's purpose and law, and to command our faith in and obdience thereto. The command word of a sovereign God can only be an infallible word, and a law word. The Bible does not seek a rational man's assent, because this rational man is a myth. It speaks to a fallen and depraved man whose need is the word of life, and the way of life, Jesus Christ, and the law of that life and person."
R.J Rushdoony, Systematic Theology, Vol. 1, p. 25. C
"As theology declined in most churches, and sociology became the major "Christian" concern, the churches became steadily more irrelevant, in that school and state were now the truly effective institutions, and the roll of a harmless club became progressively the function of the church."
R. J. Rushdoony, The Messianic Character of American Education
"The impatient may not always be wrong on issues, but they are almost always wrong in their attitudes."
R. J. Rushdoony
"Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws."
R.J. Rushdoony
"The lust for academic respectability is the major cause of intellectual ########."
R. J. Rushdoony
"Now Scripture gives no justification for an equalitarian order, and it also gives no ground whatsoever for an elitist order. Only a godly order, established in terms of Biblical law, is tenable in terms of Scripture. Elitism and equalitarianism are alike humanistic; they move in terms of man and manís hopes. The Bible is heedless of either philosophy. Scripture requires a God-centered society, one in which Godís law militates against equalitarian and elitist goals. Both equalitarianism and elitism are in essence contemptuous of man in the name of man. The elitist despises the majority of man, and the equalitarian despises all able and independent men, but, in essence, both despise all men as men and love rather their idea of men, not man himself in the singular."
R. J. Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law, p. 179
"To be responsible means literally to be answerable. Since it is God who gives the law, it means we are answerable to Him for what we do ourselves and to our fellow men, to our neighbor. Responsibility is a religious, a theological idea. Without the God of Scripture, the idea of responsibility breaks down. When every man becomes his own god, then man is not responsible, because a god answers to no one and to nothing. All things answer to a god."
R. J. Rushdoony, Law and Society,
p. 350f
"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
John Ruskin, (1819-1900), British critic, social theorist
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."
Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970)
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted
to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
Bertrand Russell
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and
never of killing for their country."
Bertrand Russell, attributed
Bertrand Russell
"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
Bertrand Russell
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell
"One of the symptoms
of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important."
Bertrand Russell
"Patriotism
is the willingness to kill and be killed
for trivial reasons."
Bertrand Russell
"It is clear
that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it
impossible to earn a living."
Bertrand Russell,
Source: Skeptical Essays, 1928
"The people who
are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary
pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the
pleasures of others."
Bertrand Russell
"It is in the
nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always
among the last to know - or care - about circumstances in the colonies."
Bertrand Russell
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
Bertrand Russell
"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic."
David Russell
"Truth to Christ, can not be treason to Caesar"
Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex
"Christ triumphs in me, blessed be His Name. I have all things. I burden no man. I see that this earth and the fullness thereof is my Father's. Sweet, sweet is the Cross of my Lord. The blessing of God upon the Cross of my Lord Jesus! My enemies have contributed, beside their design, to make me blessed. This is my palace, not my prison ... I think this is all, to gain Christ. All other things are shadows, dreams, fancies, and nothing."
Samuel Rutherford, letter to William Gordon
"Providence hath laid bounds on the king's power, and made it fatherly and not masterly; so that if it, the power, exceed the bounds of fatherly power, and pass over to the despotical and masterly power, it may be resisted by the people....
A power contrary to justice, to peace and the good of the people, that looketh to no law as a rule, and so is unreasonable, and forbidden by the law of God and the civil law.... cannot be lawful power, and cannot constitute a lawful judge; but an absolute and unlimited power is such. How can the judge be the minister of God for good to the people (Romans 13:4) if he have such power as a king, given to him of God, to destroy and waste the people."
Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex
"Duties are ours but events are the Lord's."
Samuel Ruthrford, letter 83, To the earl of Lothian, 1637
"[Christ] hath in patience waited on, while I come to myself, and hath not taken advantage of my
weak apprehension of his goodness. Great and holy is his name. He looketh to what I desire to be,
and not to what I am."
Samuel Rutherford, letter of January 1, 1637
