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Quote Of The Week Archive
6/22/05
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those
who can do nothing for them or to them."
5/15/05
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the
bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed
on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our
sunset years telling our children and our children's
children what it was once like in the United States where
men were free."
4/19/05
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the
Mount....The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is
a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants
4/12/05
The house we hope to build is not for my generation but
for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that
when you are my age, you will be able to say, as I have
been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that
were a statement, not an apology.
4/5/05
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant,
the active, the brave.
3/21/05
Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered
I was not God.
3/8/05
The greatest victories come when people dare to be great, when they summon
their spirits to brave the unknown and go forward together to reach a greater good."
2/8/05
"And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan
revolution, the men and women across America who for eight years did
the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't
just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger,
we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all,
not bad, not bad at all."
Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, 1989
1/31/05
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
1/24/05
"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."
1/17/05
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne
the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations."
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1865.
1/10/04
"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising
and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new
difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion
our Efforts to the exigency of the times."
1/3/04
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that
they may more perfectly respect it."
12/30/04
"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt
thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee to do anything
which thou knowest to be evil; so thou shalt live jollily, for a good
conscience is a continual Christmas."
12/13/04
"One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society:
that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation."
12/6/04
"Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separated from legislative power and from executive power. If it [the power of judging] were joined to legislative power, the power over life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislator. If it were joined to executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor. All would be lost if the same....body of principal men....exercised these three powers."
Montesquieu, 1748 "The Spirit of the Laws"
11/30/04
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will
be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving,
slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them."
11/27/04
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and
prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and
strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some
superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity
of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation October 3, 1863
11/21/04
"If it weren't for the graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics."
William Demerest, "The Great McGinty", 1940.
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