Thread: Quotes

...what Democrats mean by change: the ideas of Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, and Dennis Kucinich being mouthed by a young, black man instead of an old, white man – John Hawkins

" 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 thruth about them."
Adlai Stevenson.

If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America -- even those designated as 'unlawful enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles. - Alberto J. Mora, former Navy General Counsel [Feb. 27, 2006 issue of The New Yorker, entitled "The Memo"]

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"The only person my husband can trust is me."
Cindy Mc. Cain

“Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.” -- John Derbyshire

"Hitler killed only one person in his lifetime: himself. All the other atrocities that are attributed to him were carried out by people who were only following orders" Mark A. Goldman



The men that American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest the most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -- H L Mencken (attributed: source unknown)



Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant -- H L Mencken



Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.- H L Mencken

"The problem, of course, lies with the realities concealed from us. This has always been the case. While the American public has slowly grappled with ongoing injustices visible within our own borders, it has long failed to discover and correct our government's abuses abroad. In the end, however, this is our government, and torture is being utilized in our names and supported by our tax dollars. We are responsible.": Jennifer Harbury: Writer, Lawyer, Human Rights Activist



"It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who is not doing everything in their power to end this illegal and immoral occupation as quickly as possible is complicit with the war crimes being committed in Iraq on a daily basis." Dahr Jamail : Independent Journalist, War Reporter,



"We're losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be-loud and clear-there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.": Diane Wilson -Shrimp Fisher, Environmentalist, Activist,



"The role of the U.S. in the new world corporate order is going to be to export security. That means endless wars and weapons in space. The Pentagon will send our kids off to foreign lands to suppress opposition to corporate globalization. How will we ever end America's addiction to war and violence as long as our communities are dependent on military spending for jobs? We must work to convert the military industrial complex to sustainable technologies like windpower, solar, and mass transit." Bruce Gagnon



"The physical reality is that "sustainable growth" is an oxymoron. A soft energy landing from the last two hundred years of development will require massive conservation, especially by the overdeveloped countries, and that can only happen in a nongrowth ( and therefore noncapitalist ) society. The choice is now becoming either capitalism or humanity.": Stan Goff - Author, Veteran, Anti-war Activist, Feminist


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"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing."
Dwight David Eisenhower.

"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action" - George Washington

" The study of the history of wars indicates that economic factors have always played a major role in starting wars, but rarely are these economic factors disclosed to the public as the reasons."
John Denson.

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
— Seneca

"Now, while I myself happen to loathe Hillary Clinton more than practically any other human on the planet, I'm always amazed at the resentment she elicits. Especially from other women. After all this is a former First Lady who raised a magnificent daughter, kept a reckless husband in tow, and then went on to take her rightful place in the senate. Yet there is a indefatigable groundswell of Americans who despise the core of her very being. It makes no sense. Except maybe for the fact that she also happens to be an overly ambitious, double-dealing, unscrupulously grasping harpy who would gladly gnaw off her own right arm if it would further her left. But other than that, her upopularity is really a complete mystery to me." - Dennis Miller

"Whoever controls the media, controls the peoples' minds."

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns.

You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to writes (sic) his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.

I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with--others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things--and any of you who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread.

You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an "Independent Press."

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

John Swinton, editor of the New York Tribune, in the 1880s, at a banquet of his fellow editors

"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." Dresden James.



"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." Dresden James.



"Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings..." Patrick Henry


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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
— Thomas Sowell

“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.” -- H. L. Mencken

" On both sides of a war, how many mothers must face the death of their sons because a politician will not face the death of one misguided opinion?"
Laura Teresa Marquez.

Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything. -- Alexander Hamilton

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
— Dr. Seuss

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
— Chinese Proverb

"The best activitities for your health are pumping and humping." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time".
Alfred E.Wiggam

"If pigs had wings, Islamic fanatics would fly them into buildings" - James Taranto