GREAT QUIPS & QUOTES

"If a peoplke could ever succeed by itself in destroying or even diminishing the equallity that reigned within, it would arrive at that only by long and painful efforts. It would have to modify its social state, abolish its laws, renew its ideas, change its habits, alter its mores. But to lose political freedom, its enough not to hold on to it, and it escapes."

"I think, therefore, that one must always place somewhere one social power superior to all the others, but I believe freedom to be in peril when that power finds no obstacle before it that can restrain its advance and give it time to moderate itself."

"One sees peoples whose first education has been so vicious, and whose character presents such a strange mixture of passions, ignorance, and erroneous notions of all things, that by themslves they cannot discern the cause of their miseries; they succumb under evils of which they are ignorant."

"A people who have lived with freedom under law for two centuries are in peril of forgetting how rare and precious that condition is."

"My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."

"Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her."

"The man who stands by and say nothing when the peril of his government is discussed, cannot be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy; much more if he talks ambiguously -- talks for his country with 'ifs' and 'and's' and 'buts'."

"Important principles may and must be inflexible."

"But history wil record that in a period when the forces of tyranny were mobilizing for the extermination of liberty and democracy everywhere, when a mistaken policy of 'appeasement' was stocking the arsenals of despotism, and when in many high social, and some political, circles, fascism ws a fad and democracy an anthem, he stood foursquare for out democratic way of life, fought the good fight and kept the faith, and when death touched him his flag was flying still."

"No man would refuse to give brass for silver or gold, because the latter had some alloy in it. No man would refuse to quit a shattered and tottering habitation for a firm and commodious building because the latter had not a porch to it, or because some of the rooms might be a little larger or smaller, or the ceiling a little higher or lower than his fancy would have planned them."

"The colossal misreprsentation of facts -- 'terminological inexactitudes', if you like the expression (there are shorter variants, but we have to be very careful now at this election, which we are told must be kept thoroughly genteel) -- well, the first of these misrepresentations of fact was a statement that the Conservative Party meant to create unemployment in oder that the need for finding a job should add a greater spur to labour. there is no truth in this. It is a monsterous suggesstion. there was reference to this last night on the wireless by a government spokesman.
The Socialist boast they cured unemployment has been exploded out of their mouths by statements of Mr. Morrison [Obama] and Sir Stafford Cripps [Press Secretary]. All of them have said there would be anything up to 2,000,000 unemployed if it had not been for the American Loan [any latest bailout]. Fancy the Socialist Government in England [America] keeping itself alive, economically and politically, by these large annual drollops of dollars from capitalist America [borrowing from other nations]!
They seek the dollars; they beg the dollars; they bluster for the dollars; they gobble the dollars. But in the whole of their 8,00-word manifesto they cannot say 'Thank you' for the dollars. [Democrat party platform vs. capitalism]"

But words mean things and you have to make distinctions. One man may push old ladies around in wheelchairs, and another push old ladies down stiars. It simply will not do to describe both as men who push old ladies around.

"Trying is the first step towards failure."

Thor wrote
What do you think about this one, Timmer?:

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