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Quote of the Day

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

“[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.”

Orson Scott Card

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Quote of the Day

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

“I made it to 2010 and all I got from the SciFi books of my youth was the lousy dystopian government.”

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Quote of the Day

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

“The communist countries had the worst environmental record in the world; the only saving grace was that they were so inefficient they couldn’t do more damage.” — NY Times best selling author John Ringo

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Morning Quotes

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

“No legislative act contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy (agent) is greater than his principal; that the servant is above the master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people; that men, acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. It is not to be supposed that the Constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their will to that of their constituents. A Constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges as fundamental law. If there should happen to be a irreconcilable variance between the two, the Constitution is to be preferred to the statute.” — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #78

“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people’ (10th Amendment). To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition.” — Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to George Washington,15 February, 1791

“Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: ‘We the people.’ ‘We the people’ tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us. ‘We the people’ are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which ‘We the people’ tell the government what it is allowed to do. ‘We the people’ are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I’ve tried to do these past eight years.” — US President Ronald Reagan

“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” — Alexis De Tocqueville

“Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they’re it. They believe they’re more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people’s lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite.” — Dean Koontz, The Face of Fear

“Today the old-fashioned liberal pretension of equality is dead. Replacing it is naked power and the use of government to protect and expand the privileged status of the Democratic Party and its courtiers and constituents. Liberals have become reactionaries, behaving as kings did centuries ago by robbing their opponents to reward their vassals. Liberals now believe that the main purpose of government is to play favorites, to bring down their foes and give privileges to their friends.” — Lowell Ponte

“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.” — Ayn Rand

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Morning Quote

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

From the comments in a Daily Telegraph article:

“How is it that when Righties quote Lefties, they have video, audio, and notarized confirmation from the Pope, but when Lefties ‘quote’ Righties, they have Wiki entries contributed by ‘Cobra’?”

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Today’s Quote

Monday, September 21st, 2009

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

— President Ronald Reagan

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Quote of the Day

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Questioning Barack Obama Is The Highest Form of Patriotism.

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Quote of the Day

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Ann Coulter makes a very insightful observation:

“If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn’t their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can’t the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker’s personal style or hidden motives? Why the evasions?”

Pay attention to how the leftists are framing their “arguments” and “debates” currently. They are short on actual facts and the truth. The focus is on dehumanizing their opponents.

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Fresh Sig Quotes

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Recently updated

Page 16 of political sig quotes

You preach tolerance, but you hate me for being a conservative when you don’t have a clue!
Che was KGB trained and a pure sociopathic criminal.
The left’s approach to debate: ignore facts and repeat false talking points.

Page 3 of SciFi sig quotes

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, “Can’t you remember anything I told you?” and lets fly with a club.” — John W. Campbell
“In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.” — Phillip K. Dick, Solar Lottery (1955)
“Sometimes a giant energy cannon is your best friend.” — Deck Gibson: Far Reach Commander!

Page 5 of Clinton sig quotes

“One thing we know about the Clintons–they didn’t destroy us economically and don’t hate this country. Yeah, I’ll take that.” — Tammy Bruce

Barack Hussein Obama sig quotes

Obama is not the Messiah… he’s the Angel of Debt.
A twenty year old today will pay 114,000 dollars to the Federal Government just to pay the interest on Obama’s spending bill.

Page 9 of general sig quotes

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” — Albert Einstein
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” — Bill Cosby
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas A. Edison
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” — Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
“The greatest conspiracy on the planet is stupidity.” — Robert Anton Wilson

Plenty more were those came from.

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