Posted on 11/06/2001 5:40:11 PM PST by dayo
POLITICAL And Famous Quotes,
How about a thread on quotes? I will start the first one by Charles Krauthhammer.
"The next attack, catastrophic beyond our imagination, is waiting to happen. If we do not have the will to go after that threat now, these sophisticated weapons will fall into the hands of al Qaeda's comrades and successors.
We will be living the 13 days of the Cuban missile crisis----our last encounter with the real possibility of genocidal attack on America---- for the rest of our lives."---
Charles Krauthammer
"You're either with us or against us"
Both George W. Bush of course.
Two excerpts from this fantastic editorial: We ARE at war with Islam
Islam, we have been told again and again, is really "a religion of peace." Perhaps the reason we have to be told this so many times is because it so obviously contradicts the facts.
there is a crucial difference between Western religions and Islam: the West's religious cruelties have stayed in the past.
If we want to win this war, we must begin by recognizing that it is a war against Islam...(and) Our goal in this war should be to...force Islam, like the religions of the civilized world, to lay down its arms and accept the freedom of a secular society.
To you who desire to cross this threshold, do you know what awaits you?
I know, replied the girl.
Cold, hunger, abhorrence, derision, contempt, abuse, prison, disease and death!
I know, I am ready, I shall endure all blows.
Not from enemies alone, but from relatives, and friends.
Yes even from them...
Are you ready even to commit a crime? Do you know that you may be disillusioned in that which you believe, that you may discover that you were mistaken, that you ruined your young life in vain?
I know that, too.
Enter!
The girl crossed the threshold, and a heavy curtain fell behind her.
Fool! said someone, gnashing his teeth.
Saint! someone uttered in reply.
Turgenev
"What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependency; From dependency back into bondage."
-- From "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic", Alexander Fraser Tyler (1748 - 1813)
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependency; From dependency back into bondage."
-- From "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic", Alexander Fraser Tyler (1748 - 1813)
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