Quotes and Wisdoms

[GL Schmitt]

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”Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.” ~ George S. Patton

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"Always look on the bright side of life." ~ Monty Python. :wink:

 

[Reverend Blair]

"The demise of the American dream is evident in that nobody has assassinated George Bush."

--me

 

[I think not]

Well there is always hope

 

[Ten Packs]

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

--Mark Twain

 

[GL Schmitt]

“Lee Harvey Oswald, where are you, now when we need you?” ~ Nixon Era Bumper Sticker.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Well there is always hope

:lol: :wink:

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Re: RE: Quotes and Wisdoms

"The demise of the American dream is evident in that nobody has assassinated George Bush."

--me

good job .Rev. :wink:

 

[jimmoyer]

There is another aspect of the seeming American Dream.

It was referred to at one time as MANIFEST DESTINY.

What a phrase. What presumptuousness !!

But nevertheless, such a phrase described something descriptive about early white man American culture.

But get past all of the debate about that. Hell it's all boring by now.

What's new, what's fresh, what's interesting, is that there's another country that has that thing.

It's China.

China is the one.

China has MANIFEST DESTINY.

Even the ones who know all the problems there with their own government all agree in unity about its own MANIFEST DESTINY.

They own both sides of the Panama Canal.

They're working with Chavez in Venezuela.

They will get back Taiwan, the old island of Formosa.
Not that such an act has any rightness about it, but it's an eventual foregone conclusion in a culture that has MANIFEST DESTINY.

 

[Reverend Blair]

So I was reading a thing by Mr. Heinlein and Lazurus Long was arguing with his clones over whether having sex with your clones was incest or masturbation and it occured to me that Canadian s/f was much better at metaphors.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
– Noam Chomsky

 

[Ten Packs]

Re: RE: Quotes and Wisdoms

So I was reading a thing by Mr. Heinlein and Lazurus Long was arguing with his clones over whether having sex with your clones was incest or masturbation and it occured to me that Canadian s/f was much better at metaphors.

HEY- ZOOOS! (spanish)

It's been a long, long time since I thought about Lazarus Long and the Future History....... my God, it's almost like I had hair again!




Well, almost........ :roll:

 

[Reverend Blair]

I hadn't thought of it in years either, Ten Packs...then somebody gave me a box of old paperbacks.

 

[Jay]

"Reasonable people adapt to the world. Unreasonable people persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore, all progress depends on unreasonable people." --George Bernard Shaw

 

[Ocean Breeze]

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments: Napoleon Bonaparte: French Emperor (1769-1821)

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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.": Georges Bernanos

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How you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better: Mark Twain

ps. Nice one Jay

 

[I think not]

When you conquer all of your fears, there is no limit to what you can achieve. - I think not

 

[Gordon J Torture]

"Disgust with Conformity is not the transient ignorance of youth, but the leftover innocence of birth." -Gordon J Torture.

 

[mrmom2]

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell

 

[Ocean Breeze]

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride: William James

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The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people: Frank Kent

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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest: -Thomas Jefferson

 

[Andygal]

"The demise of the American dream is evident in that nobody has assassinated George Bush."

true Rev, I said something like that to my dad once, and he said unfortunately that the kind of fanatics who will kill people are the kind of people that support GWB in the first place, the people that don't like him aren't fanatics and won't do that kind of thing.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Theodore Roosevelt

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. Benjamin Franklin

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.Larry Hardiman

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. Bob Edwards

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people: Black Hugo L.

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human: Aldous Huxley

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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder ": George Washington

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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny: William Ellery Channing

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Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us: Butler D. Shaffer