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2006 January 13
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"Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or
the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to
produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the
immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims:
they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer,
defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of
behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing
intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of
betterment." |
"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't." |
"The things that will destroy America are
prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price,
safety-first instead of duty-first,
the love of soft living,
and the get-rich-quick theory of life." |
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2006 January 12
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"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth." |
"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the
ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia
and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own
excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander,
could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the
Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the
approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it
must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction
be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation
of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." |
"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all the time." |
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2006 January 11
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"We all know our duty better than we discharge it." |
"Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves." |
"My father taught that the only helping hand
you're ever going to be able to rely on
is the one at the end of your sleeve." |
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2006 January 10
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"He alone is free
who lives with free consent
under the entire guidance of reason." |
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction,
but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch." |
"We have plenty of freedom in this country
but not a great deal of independence." |
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2006 January 09
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"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world." |
"If you think you're too small to make a difference,
you haven't been in bed with a mosquito." |
"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death." |
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