Thread: Quotes

"I am not a pacifist. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty"

-- John Bonforte

"God gave us reason not religion"

(Origin unknown, but it was seen on a deism.com bumper sticker. I like it because it riles the most intellectually intolerant among us - fundamentalist Muslims, evangelical Christians and Athiests)

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." -Thomas Jefferson

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
- Benjamin Franklin

"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity." -John Adams

"Just as liberals claim to be pro-worker but urge policies that are anti-business, they claim to be pro-child while encouraging social mores and government policies that undermine the family." -- Mona Charen

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)

"People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.”

--Martin Amis

Adlai Stevenson:
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. [1952]

G. K. Chesterton:
The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

"Socialist: One who believes in stealing other's property by force of law.
Hypocrite: A Socialist who proclaims a belief in fairness" -- Anon

"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your argument a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?" -- George Orwell

Bertrand Russell :
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Deranged Quote of the Day

"I would like to say we're at a point where global warming in impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future" -- Liberal columnist Ellen Goodman

Some gems from Adolf Hitler-


Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.


The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies.

“It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.”

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

"There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious" -- Ayatollah Khomeini

"I'm not like George bush. I'll do anything to win" -- Al Gore 2000

"The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done." --George W. Bush, Greeley, Colo., Nov. 4, 2006 (Watch video clip)

Stroller will like this one:

"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany." --George W. Bush, D.C., May 5, 2006

The Arab street knows full well that we give billions to Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinians � and are probably baffled that we don't cut it out. They also know we have just as frequently fought Christians on their behalf as Muslims; they know � if their voting feet tell them anything � that no place is more tolerant of their religion or more open to immigration than the United States. Yes, (Radical) Islamists all know that opening a mosque in Detroit is one thing, and opening a church in Saudi Arabia is quite another. Hitler wasn't interested in Wilson's 14 Points or how nicely Germans lived in the U.S. � he cared only that we "cowboys" would not or could not stop what he was up to. -- Victor Davis Hanson

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.

Eh? Is this some joke? Germany is more 'democratic' than the US, if that accounts for anything.

That brainless dwarf is the pits.

He misspoke as usual. The connection between his brain and mouth is tenuous at the best of times.

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --George W. Bush, interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man." -- Ronald Reagan

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man." -- Ronald Reagan

He probably didn't understand what inflation was....