Sunday, April 22, 2007

Quotes and other things

Please feel free to add a quote, add a name to posts that I didn't find. I will be final arbiter


Patrick Henry said “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me give me liberty, or give me death.”


My friends, if you think the socialist agenda is something other than a premeditated assault on liberty, consider the following quote:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

~Norman Thomas, six time presidential candidate on the socialist ticket and founding member of the ACLU.


America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

— James Michener


Today is tomorrow paid in advance...invest it wisely.
Leftfoot Leeds



Following is the winning entry from an annual contest calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year's term: Political Correctness.


"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.




Sometimes the difference between feeling bad and feeling good is the way we stand or if we stand at all.
Leftfoot Leeds


Courage in a single man is a majority
Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer
Author unknown

Victory belongs to those that believe it the most and the longest
Author unknown

My incapacity and inability, marvels at my audacity to try anyway
Leftfoot Leeds

I'm much too strong to compromise my dreams...
lyrics to a song by Boston

Up from the ashes grow the roses of success
from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Your only real limitations are the ones you accept and believe in your own mind.
Author unknown

One does not acquire virtue by becoming a better type of thief
Author unknown

What man really fears is not so much extinction,
but extinction with insignificance.

Men fashion un-freedom as bribery for self-perpetuation
Ayn Rand

An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind
John Mellencamp

Fear is the mind killer... I must not fear
Fear defeats the mind,the mind controls the body
From the movie Dune

As you believe, so let it be
Jesus

The ultimate dare is to tell the truth
Author unknown

Make sure you generate a reasonable number of mistakes
Fletcher Byron's ninth commandment

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Dr. Ben Johnson 1610 A.D.

I joyfully and gratefully receive and accept the
abundance,power, and support which is already prepared for me
Author unknown

What can we do against such reckless hate,but to mount up and ride out to meet it
with sword drawn and eyes ablaze
from the movie Lord of the Rings

We create the world we live in be it slavery and evil
or freedom and justice... God wound us up and let us go
Leftfoot Leeds

Hate is a tomb woven in the dark and hardened by horror in the absence of love
Leftfoot Leeds

Sight is a poor substitute for clear, precise thinking
Leftfoot Leeds

A God that teaches destruction is not a God at all, but man's disfigured thoughts
Leftfoot Leeds

Hypocrisy is the tribute which vice pays to virtue
La Rochefoucald

Internal commitment changes external conditions
Author unkown

There is no defense for excellence in the market place
Author unknown

Extraordinary achievements are the results produced by ordinary people...
with extraordinary dreams
Author unknown

Lead with your talents
Author unknown

Dreams provide the passion...Goals provide the ration
Author unknown

Home is love made visible
Author unknown

Imagination is the legs supporting the table top of certainty
Orison Swett Marden

Compliments are gifts of prosperity
Learn to accept them graciously
Louise Hay

Not to know is bad...Not to wish to know is worse
Old African Saying

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