November 21, 2008
- "The three big domestic automakers are now saying they are working jointly on a new hybrid car. It runs on a combination of state and federal bailout money." - Jay Leno...
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11:29 AM
November 04, 2008
According to all the studies, somewhere between 8 percent and 14 percent of voters are still undecided. Who are these morons? What, you need another year to figure this out? “Gee, I wonder where my candidate stands on UFO...
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08:37 PM
October 03, 2008
With the Congress not in session, the stock market made a big comeback today. See, that's the key to saving the economy. Send these idiots home so they can't screw up anymore. Exactly. We need more holidays. That's the...
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12:06 AM
September 17, 2008
This is so stupid. They always ask voters, 'which candidate would you rather have a beer with?' You want to have a beer with any politicians, really? — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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09:51 PM
August 17, 2008
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? — George...
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06:05 PM
July 26, 2008
And human rights activists have sent a letter to President Bush, asking him to raise human rights issues with the Chinese government during the Olympics. Unfortunately, they also sent a letter to the Chinese government asking them to bring...
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10:02 AM
July 18, 2008
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. School days,...
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01:22 AM
June 28, 2008
Hillary Clinton is out campaigning with Barack Obama. She says if it goes well, she'll consider making him her running mate. — David Letterman, Late Night with David Letterman...
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05:08 PM
May 11, 2008
President Bush said that Cinco de Mayo is an opportunity to recognize the strong ties of family, economy and culture that bind the United States and Mexico. That was nice. Yeah. Then the president said, "Now, let's get back to...
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03:28 PM
April 17, 2008
This seemed odd to me. For the pope's arrival ceremony at the White House tomorrow, they're going to give him a 21-gun salute. Now, really, isn't there a better welcome for the Apostle of Peace than a show of firearms?...
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05:15 PM
April 04, 2008
President Bush threw out the first ball the other night at the Washington Nationals home opener. Boy, wasn't it nice to see Bush throwing out something other than the Constitution? — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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11:53 AM
February 21, 2008
Castro’s retirement will not change the relationship Cuba has with the United States. Cubans will still not legally be allowed to enter the United States unless they have an overpowering fastball. — David Letterman, The Late Show...
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12:31 PM
February 13, 2008
John McCain was the big Republican winner. One pundit said McCain’s lucky nickel was working. He carries a lucky nickel. It must be lucky — six months ago, that was his campaign war chest. Hillary Clinton also carries around a...
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08:50 PM
January 31, 2008
During the speech, President Bush was optimistic and upbeat about Iraq and the economy. So, apparently, he's drinking again. — David Letterman, The Late Show with David Letterman...
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04:43 PM
January 24, 2008
Super Tuesday is coming up -- 23 states, 70 million votes. That is almost as much as “American Idol,” do you realize that? — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
Posted by PaulGessing at
07:57 PM
January 15, 2008
And on the Republican side, congratulations to John McCain. He was a big winner up in New Hampshire, too. ... Fascinating comeback story, this John McCain, quite a guy. Highly decorated veteran. Spent 5 1/2 years in prison then went...
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12:47 PM
January 01, 2008
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson...
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09:47 PM
December 18, 2007
"Some people in this chamber love the Constitution more than they love the safety of this nation. We should all send President Bush a letter thanking him for protecting us." --Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), today on the Senate floor...
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07:38 PM
October 29, 2007
Good news for the terrorists: Undercover agents posing as passengers were able to get simulated bombs through the screening process here at LAX 75% of the time ... but not one drop of shampoo. — Bill Maher, Real Time...
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12:54 AM
October 23, 2007
The Dalai Lama told President Bush that he had seen evil firsthand. President Bush said, "Great, you got to meet Cheney." — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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01:07 PM
October 07, 2007
Congress has been having hearings this week concerning the increasing number of late airline flights. Congress said they may have to intervene in order to help the airlines improve. And really, who better than Congress to show you how to...
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07:33 PM
September 29, 2007
Hillary and Barack and John Edwards, they said setting a timetable for a complete withdrawal is irresponsible. And pulling out troops basically depends on the situation on the ground. Otherwise known as "the Bush plan." -- Jay Leno...
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11:55 AM
September 15, 2007
Here's an interesting story: President Bush got in a very testy exchange with the president of South Korea over North Korea. ... The South Korean President wants the U.S. government to officially end the Korean War, which was 55 years...
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05:13 PM
September 03, 2007
Alberto Gonzales is stepping down, but he can't recall why. — David Letterman, The Late Show with David Letterman...
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08:21 PM
August 27, 2007
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt...
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11:58 PM
August 15, 2007
It was this week in 1974 that Richard Nixon resigned the presidency after getting caught lying and violating the Constitution. Remember when that kind of thing used to get you kicked out of office? — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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11:27 PM
August 10, 2007
All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war, which obliges nations to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2 [1840]...
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09:03 PM
August 04, 2007
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire...
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01:36 AM
July 28, 2007
John Edwards is continuing his "Poverty Tour” around America. Today he visited with a group of people who get their hair cut at a place called "a barber shop.” He was horrified at their stories. Combs and blue liquid... —...
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09:50 AM
July 23, 2007
It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government. — Thomas Paine...
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12:45 PM
July 05, 2007
The price of milk is going up. Some experts say it could hit $4 a gallon. In fact, President Bush said today if the price of milk continues to rise, we may have to invade Wisconsin. — Jay Leno, The...
Posted by PaulGessing at
11:03 AM
June 23, 2007
The question of the morality of the Iraq War is not a difficult one. It is, in fact, an open and shut case. The war was immoral from the very beginning. It is still immoral right now. And anything short...
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02:50 AM
June 05, 2007
There are three new books out now about Hillary Clinton. One on each of her positions on the Iraq war. — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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10:33 PM
May 28, 2007
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --Will Rogers, American humorist and showman...
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12:02 PM
May 17, 2007
According to a new State Department report, the number of terrorist attacks in Iraq jumped 91% from 2005 to 2006, many of the attacks planned and executed by al-Qaeda, and several of those attacks using deadly chlorine gas. That's right...
Posted by PaulGessing at
12:24 PM
May 12, 2007
The Democrats' problem isn't that they're calling for timetables. It's that they're calling them timetables. You're up against Bush and the Republicans, you got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables. Call them ... patriot dates ... freedom deadlines...
Posted by PaulGessing at
01:36 AM
May 05, 2007
We deported over 250,000 illegal immigrants from this country last year. And today at the rally, they said they're all glad to be back. — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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10:41 AM
April 23, 2007
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. --...
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12:16 AM
April 12, 2007
The White House wants to appoint a high-powered official to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and issue directions to the Pentagon and the State Department . . . This person would be called the President of the United...
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12:41 PM
April 10, 2007
Vermont did not join the Union to become part of an empire -- Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan...
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12:46 AM
March 26, 2007
The fact is, that an earmark is something that is requested by an individual member. This item was not requested by any individual member. It was put in the bill by ME! -- Rep. David Obey (D-WI)...
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05:32 PM
March 20, 2007
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. -- Ronald Reagan...
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04:32 PM
March 17, 2007
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. — George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara [1907]...
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12:33 AM
March 09, 2007
Prince Charles says he wants to ban McDonald's. He said banning McDonald's is the key to living a healthy lifestyle. ... I think banning Dominos would make more sense. They deliver the junk food to your house. At least with...
Posted by PaulGessing at
10:11 AM
February 24, 2007
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim...
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01:56 AM
February 19, 2007
Yesterday at an international conference. An official from Cuba said that his country restricts use of the Internet because it’s a "wild new technology.” Other wild new technologies in Cuba? The eight-track, the typewriter, and Tupperware. — Conan O’Brien, Late...
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12:09 AM
February 01, 2007
At the outset of this war, the Bush administration believed, apparently, that democracy could be exported through the barrel of a gun. That belief was wrong them; it is wrong today. Twenty thousand more troops won’t make it right. --...
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07:35 PM
January 25, 2007
The Constitution does not specify how long the State of the Union address must be. You know who gave the longest State of the Union address ever? Bill Clinton. You know who gave the shortest? George Washington. It was just...
Posted by PaulGessing at
03:57 PM
January 23, 2007
The Constitution doesn't say that every individual in the United States or every citizen has or is assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn't say that. It simply says that the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended....
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12:39 PM
January 09, 2007
We have a new person in the mailroom opening mail: President Bush. Do you know about this? The president now says that the government now has the right to open up anyone’s mail at anytime without a warrant. How crazy...
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04:58 PM
January 04, 2007
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. -- Eugene McCarthy...
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12:32 AM
December 19, 2006
Speaking of that, a California company that was hired to build a fence along the border with Mexico has been charged with hiring illegal immigrants. Isn’t that unbelievable? Prosecutors say this is the worst case of irony they've ever seen....
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10:44 AM
November 19, 2006
Governments never learn. Only people learn. -- Milton Friedman...
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10:50 PM
November 09, 2006
These people — the Republicans — should be ashamed of themselves because they have greatly shamed and damaged our country. Unfortunately, however, they feel no shame because while they love to preach the concept of individual responsibility to others, never...
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11:14 PM
October 28, 2006
The election is three weeks away and there are rumors the Republicans are getting ready for an election night disaster, which would be a first -- a disaster they were actually prepared for. — Bill Maher...
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01:53 AM
October 22, 2006
President Bush said today the U.S. will not attack North Korea. Oh sure, but we may liberate them." — Jay Leno...
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11:06 PM
October 18, 2006
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress. — Jay Leno...
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12:33 AM
October 02, 2006
The Republic has been on life-support for some time, I think this week Congress finally pulled the plug. -- Anonymous Hill Staffer...
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11:31 AM
September 28, 2006
Whatever else this is, it is not a constitutional democracy. It is a thinly-veiled military dictatorship, subject to only one control: the will of the Great Decider. And the war that justifies this astonishing attack on American liberty is permanent,...
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12:36 AM
September 23, 2006
It's a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana instead of a bag of spinach. I'd be dead by now. -- Willie Nelson...
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09:36 AM
September 21, 2006
Willie Nelson and the boys were on the road, and they stopped them and found a pound and a half of marijuana. Bin Laden is still loose, but we got Willie Nelson. — David Letterman, The Late Show with David...
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01:01 PM
September 14, 2006
Today President Bush said that the United States is still under the threat of an attack and will continue to be right up until Election Day. — Jay Leno...
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08:04 PM
August 28, 2006
Let me explain something to you about the algebra, if you will, of cable news: Three-year war in Iraq is less than 30-day-old bombing of Lebanon, which is less than explosive Gatorade on a plane, all of which is [nothing]...
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10:27 PM
August 07, 2006
Miami's Hispanic population took to the streets last night to celebrate Fidel Castro temporarily stepping down from power. Way to go America! Our plan to slowly deteriorate his health over the course of 50 years is working. — Stephen Colbert,...
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06:19 PM
August 01, 2006
Most Americans think that freedom means the government gets to tell us who can come here and live with us. Even many Americans who believe strongly in free trade in goods can’t quite bring themselves to embrace free movement of...
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01:30 PM
July 17, 2006
Japan says they're now considering whether attacking North Korea’s missile sites would violate their constitution. Imagine that, government leaders worried about violating the constitution. There's something you don't see anymore. — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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05:13 PM
July 09, 2006
While our young men and women battle valiantly in Iraq, the older men and women who sent them there are locked in a similar struggle -- albeit rhetorical -- carefully choosing their fighting words over here, because they'll never have...
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11:16 AM
June 29, 2006
The Census Bureau revealed today that Las Vegas is about to pass Washington, D.C. in population. The big difference between Las Vegas and D.C., of course, is that in Las Vegas people gamble with their own money. — Jay Leno,...
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07:36 PM
June 23, 2006
Republicans in the House of Representatives forced everyone to spend an entire day discussing a non-binding resolution praising the troops and labeling Iraq part of the War on Terror. Later they will debate a resolution declaring kittens 'adorable'. — Jon...
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05:17 PM
June 18, 2006
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin...
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02:24 AM
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin...
Posted by PaulGessing at
02:24 AM
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. - Benjamin Franklin...
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02:24 AM
June 04, 2006
Mexico, join us like Puerto Rico... you'll have no rights or representation, but on the plus side you'll be the hallucinatory worm in our giant bottle of freedom. And together the two of us can take on the Canadian gringos....
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01:16 PM
May 06, 2006
According to a survey, one-third of people asked could not find Louisiana on a map. And those were just the people at FEMA. — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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11:10 AM
April 26, 2006
In the current issue of Sports Illustrated, reporter Richard Deitsch asked USC running back Reggie Bush (who is expected to be drafted first by the Houston Texans in the upcoming NFL draft) what his reaction was upon learning that Texas...
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04:35 PM
April 23, 2006
On CNN, a retired Air Force Colonel said that U.S. military operations are already underway in Iran. So you know what that means — time to break out the old mission accomplished banner! — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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03:05 AM
April 11, 2006
Easter, when the Son of God arose after being crucified by a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats. — Norman Singleton...
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11:56 PM
April 05, 2006
"Ideas are bulletproof!" -- V in the movie "V for Vendetta."...
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10:51 PM
March 26, 2006
Yesterday, President Bush gave a big speech about immigration reform. Is President Bush the best person to be talking about entering another country illegally? — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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10:07 PM
Newly released documents show the FBI is now investigating Americans, just for opposing the war. You know, maybe when we get done establishing that democracy in Iraq, we could try it over here. — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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10:06 PM
March 18, 2006
According to a new poll, only one in four Americans can name two of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. But more than half of Americans can name at least two of the characters on The Simpsons. Hey,...
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10:59 AM
March 07, 2006
"Many libertarians argue vociferously for ‘economic thinking’ – which implies an analysis of tradeoffs. But, often, libertarian arguments assume that tradeoffs come as “all or nothing” decisions. Accepting one small bit of government equals accepting every big government idea. This...
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10:29 PM
March 05, 2006
"There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. It's what we do to taffy -- it just makes it more delicious." -- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report...
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01:36 PM
March 03, 2006
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. -- Franklin P. Adams...
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12:59 AM
February 03, 2006
What a nightmare I had last night .. I dreamed I was at a Washington party and I had to choose between Dick Cheney taking me on a hunting trip or Ted Kennedy driving me home. — Jay Leno, The...
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01:44 PM
Did you see Oprah lay into that author Stephen Frey…the guy who wrote that phony book "A Million Little Pieces”? She ripped him apart for lying and then he lied again on the show. You know the sad thing, you...
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01:44 PM
January 25, 2006
On more serious news, there’s a rumor that we may have killed al Qaeda’s number two man. If it turns out to be true this will be the 387th time we have killed the number two man. — Jay Leno,...
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06:30 PM
January 23, 2006
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. — Smedley Butler, Major General USMC [1933]...
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05:35 PM
January 19, 2006
Personally, I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer. — Will Rogers...
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07:28 PM
December 25, 2005
Indicted Congressman Tom DeLay announced that he will not run for re-election as House Majority Leader but that he will run for re-election to Congress. So apparently he thinks he's too corrupt to be a leader, but not too corrupt...
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12:03 AM
December 08, 2005
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. -- William Penn...
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09:41 AM
December 06, 2005
California Congressman Duke Cunningham resigned from office after admitting he broke the law by taking $2.4 million dollars in bribes. It's kind of ironic. The only time you can be really be sure that a politician is telling the truth...
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03:37 PM
November 20, 2005
We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. --- Chief Justice Robert Jackson at the opening session of the Nuremberg Tribunal....
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10:42 PM
November 17, 2005
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. ---Ayn Rand...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
12:31 AM
November 13, 2005
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.--- Garrison Keillor...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:04 PM
November 10, 2005
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. – George Orwell...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
09:43 AM
November 08, 2005
In yesterday’s election the city of Denver voted to legalize marijuana possession. Fifty-three percent approve of marijuana. Boy, how does that make Bush feel? He’s forty percent behind pot now. — Jay Leno, The Tonight Show...
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08:30 AM
November 06, 2005
No one has a right to your happiness except you. Emotional hostages do not grow, transcend, build, nurture, or make fresh discoveries. They are imprisoned in the past.--- Wolf DeVoon...
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10:16 PM
November 03, 2005
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.– Tacitus...
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07:54 PM
October 30, 2005
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.- Plato...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:37 PM
October 26, 2005
"Class Consciousness" is knowing which side of the fence you are on. - George Lukacs...
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10:17 PM
October 23, 2005
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara Tuchman...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:02 PM
October 19, 2005
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.– Guy de Maupassant...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:32 PM
October 16, 2005
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. --Ayn Rand...
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11:52 PM
October 12, 2005
He who defines duty for himself is his own master.- Richard A. Cheatham...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:25 PM
October 09, 2005
We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. — Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
09:52 PM
October 06, 2005
The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
12:52 AM
October 02, 2005
Historically, liberalism was the first political movement that aimed at promoting the welfare of all, not that of special groups. Liberalism is distinguished from socialism, which likewise professes to strive for the good of all, not by the goal at...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:23 PM
September 29, 2005
Corporate capitalism, in fact, is the worst enemy that free enterprise currently has in this country. To be quite blunt about it, the big guys are very deliberately using our "free enterprise" system to stamp out the little guys. But...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
10:30 AM
September 26, 2005
In a free society, you have very few laws and they are all taken very seriously. In our society, we have thousands of laws that no one knows, no one can possibly know, and we are a nation of law-breakers....
Posted by ChemicalAli at
12:19 AM
September 21, 2005
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. - Lord Acton...
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10:25 PM
September 18, 2005
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Leo C. Rosten...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
09:25 PM
September 14, 2005
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:20 PM
September 11, 2005
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.- Willem de Kooning...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
10:49 PM
September 08, 2005
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. - Meg Greenfield...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
12:08 AM
September 04, 2005
The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government. — Joseph Sobran...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:37 PM
August 31, 2005
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. - Michael Bakunin...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
10:39 PM
August 28, 2005
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
10:14 PM
August 24, 2005
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. - Mohandas K. Gandhi...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
09:54 PM
August 21, 2005
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. - James A. Garfield...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:46 PM
August 17, 2005
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. - Marian Wright Edelman...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
10:37 PM
August 14, 2005
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:26 PM
August 11, 2005
President Bush is on his vacation Crawford, Texas. He says he’ll leave only when Crawford is capable of self rule. — David Letterman, The Late Show...
Posted by PaulGessing at
04:55 PM
President Bush is on his vacation Crawford, Texas. He says he’ll leave only when Crawford is capable of self rule. — David Letterman, The Late Show...
Posted by PaulGessing at
04:54 PM
August 10, 2005
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. - William Penn...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
11:43 PM
August 09, 2005
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. — Will Rogers...
Posted by PaulGessing at
11:54 AM
August 07, 2005
There never was a good war or bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
10:07 PM
August 03, 2005
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. - Etienne Gilson...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
10:29 PM
August 02, 2005
I love to go to Washington — if only to be near my money. - Bob Hope...
Posted by PaulGessing at
11:14 PM
August 01, 2005
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. Simon Cameron...
Posted by PaulGessing at
06:25 PM
"The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself." - Edward Ericson...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
12:15 AM
July 29, 2005
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. Calvin & Hobbes...
Posted by PaulGessing at
08:04 PM
July 28, 2005
Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous. Will Rogers...
Posted by PaulGessing at
05:30 PM
July 27, 2005
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. – Frank Chodorov...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
10:58 PM
July 25, 2005
First say to yourself what you would have be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus:...
Posted by ChemicalAli at
09:48 PM
July 16, 2005
"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden...
Posted by KevinRollins at
02:05 PM
July 09, 2005
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes the revolution to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is...
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01:16 PM
July 06, 2005
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone." -- Frederic Bastiat...
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09:51 AM
June 20, 2005
"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." -- Edmund Burke...
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08:47 AM
May 29, 2005
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." -- John Stuart Mill...
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10:14 AM
May 18, 2005
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson...
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10:35 AM
May 09, 2005
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." -- Lord Acton...
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04:08 PM
May 06, 2005
"A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth." -- Sir Walter Raleigh...
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02:42 AM
May 03, 2005
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." -- George Bernard Shaw...
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11:45 AM
April 21, 2005
"You should see, what a lovely, lovely world this would be If everyone learned to live together It seems to me such an easy, easy thing this would be Why can't you and me learn to love one another All...
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12:09 AM
April 18, 2005
"I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down." -- Chumbawamba, "Tubthumping"...
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12:53 AM
April 09, 2005
"...our civil State, as you have made it; a State which, at first, was despotism, then monarchy, then aristocracy, today democracy, and always tyranny." -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon...
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09:29 PM
April 08, 2005
"The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation -- that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society...
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10:25 AM
April 06, 2005
"Dear Kindly Social Worker, They say go earn a buck, like be a soda jerker, which means like be a schmuck. It's not I'm anti-social, I'm only anti-work." -- The Jets, West Side Story, "Dear Officer Krupke"...
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01:27 AM
April 01, 2005
"While birds can fly, only humans can argue. Argument is the affirmation of our being." -- Gerry Spence...
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02:01 PM
March 28, 2005
"Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore." -- Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson...
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03:22 AM
March 25, 2005
"It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory." -- Karl Popper...
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04:12 PM
March 23, 2005
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." -- Aesop...
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10:55 AM
March 22, 2005
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." -- John Stuart Mill...
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01:25 AM
March 17, 2005
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it." -- Samuel Johnson...
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10:14 AM
March 12, 2005
"Politics and morality on the same side? That doesn't happen every day." -- Vir Cotto, Babylon 5...
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12:33 PM
March 10, 2005
"WHO GOT THE POWER TO MAKE A CHANGE? WHO GOT THE POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? WE GOT THE- WE GOT THE-WE GOT THE" -- Beastie Boys, We Got The...
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11:44 PM
March 09, 2005
"Of course you can’t become, if you only say what you would have done." -- LEN, Steal My Sunshine...
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02:07 PM
March 04, 2005
"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside of ourselves will effect us." -- Steven R. Covey...
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10:22 AM
February 27, 2005
"It is useless to meet revenge with revenge: it will heal nothing." -- Frodo Baggins, The Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkien...
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11:56 AM
February 26, 2005
"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think." -- H. L. Mencken...
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02:02 AM
February 24, 2005
"If it is fun in any way, it isn't environmentalism." -- Leela, "Save the Penguins" episode, Futurama...
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09:47 PM
February 23, 2005
"Only weirdos and freaks join third parties." -- Amy Wong, Futurama...
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01:24 AM
February 18, 2005
They have a lot of work to do this year. Tax reform, social security reform, lawsuit reform, and telecom reform. That's a lot of reforming to expect from the only whorehouse in America that loses money. But we can always...
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11:28 PM
February 16, 2005
"To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything." -- Friedrich August von Hayek...
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11:10 AM
February 14, 2005
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat...
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08:22 PM
February 07, 2005
"Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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07:16 AM
February 02, 2005
Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. When you declare that men are irrational animals...
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12:53 PM
January 21, 2005
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." -- Jean Jacques Rousseau...
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10:35 AM
January 18, 2005
"A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas." -- Henry Steele Commager...
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01:43 AM
January 13, 2005
"Restless is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress." -- Thomas A. Edison...
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02:18 AM
January 06, 2005
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men." -- Mortimer Adler...
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04:23 PM
January 05, 2005
"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." -- John Stuart...
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04:24 PM
December 31, 2004
"Those who seek power over all else are neither liberal nor conservative. They are simply morally and politically corrupt." -- Gus diZerega...
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12:03 PM
December 27, 2004
"Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the [electromagnetic] spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands. The color blue is no less beautiful because it exists alongside the other colors of a rainbow,...
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11:22 AM
December 24, 2004
"Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword." -- Jesus of Nazareth...
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09:41 PM
December 21, 2004
"It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright." -- Murray N. Rothbard...
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02:48 PM
December 17, 2004
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -- Galileo Galilei...
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11:52 AM
December 16, 2004
"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience tells them it is wrong." -- Walter Bagehot...
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02:03 AM
December 12, 2004
"Even in a society of laws, one of the most indispensable freedoms is that to express in the most impassioned terms the most passionate disagreement with the laws themselves, the institutions of and created by, law, and the individual officials...
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11:19 AM
December 10, 2004
"You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: an allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power" -- J.R.R. Tolkien...
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05:15 PM
November 29, 2004
"There! You see!" said the Ape. "It's all arranged. And all for your own good. We'll be able, with the money you earn, to make Narnia a country worth living in. There'll be oranges and bananas pouring in -- and...
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12:34 AM
November 24, 2004
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." -- Albert Einstein...
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02:18 AM
November 04, 2004
"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they hereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was...
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03:59 PM
October 26, 2004
"The whole modern world has divided itself into conservatives and progressives. The business of progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of...
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03:13 AM
October 19, 2004
"Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority." -- William Howard...
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01:12 AM
October 05, 2004
"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development...
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03:26 AM
September 30, 2004
"The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised." -- George D. Herron (1862-1925) Source: in The Cry For Justice (Upton Sinclair) 1920...
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09:45 AM
September 24, 2004
"Conformity and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) American poet Source: Queen Mab, 1813...
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09:27 AM
September 20, 2004
"Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior...
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10:21 AM
September 18, 2004
"Individuals running at their fullest capacities will generate the things that make life worthwhile. They solve problems and create a better world. Most of the institutions that we've generated tend to want to mediate individual tendencies to be idiosyncratic and...
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06:42 PM
September 14, 2004
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." -- Gandalf,...
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02:15 AM
September 13, 2004
"It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many people can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval." -- Mark Twain...
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10:41 AM
September 10, 2004
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good,...
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10:12 AM
September 09, 2004
"Liberty is where the minority is protected." -- Congressman Ron Paul...
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02:11 AM
September 03, 2004
"They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way." -- Casey Stengel (1890-1975) Baseball manager...
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10:12 AM
September 02, 2004
"Reality is not always probable, or likely." -- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentine Poet...
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03:11 AM
September 01, 2004
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Philosopher, educator...
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09:21 AM
August 31, 2004
"In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918- ) Russian writer, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize...
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10:04 AM
August 29, 2004
"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience." -- Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp Source:...
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11:31 PM
August 28, 2004
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and...
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09:32 PM
August 26, 2004
"Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own...
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03:08 AM
August 25, 2004
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it." -- Olin Miller...
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03:35 AM
August 24, 2004
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato, (429-347 BC)...
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11:26 AM
August 20, 2004
"The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived...
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01:37 PM
August 19, 2004
"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class. The great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous...
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03:53 AM
August 18, 2004
"Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice." -- John Adams...
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12:12 PM