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“My Kingdom is no part of this world. If my Kingdom were part of this world, my attendants Would Have Fought so that I should not be handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not from this source.” – Jesus Christ to Pilate – John 18:36 – Apostle John – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mohandas Gandhi
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion. – Justice Robert H. Jackson (1943)
A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal
If “pro” is the opposite of “con,” what is the opposite of progress? – Paul Harvey
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. – Benjamin Disraeli
It is dangerous to be right on matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire
The reluctance of honest open debate between scientists and experts over global warming made me suspicious of its accuracy. – Gary Pulliam - 1990
Too much self-centered attitude brings isolation. Result: loneliness fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffereing. – Delai Lama
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
Republics decline into democracies and democracies decline into despotisms. – Aristotle
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. – Theodore Roosevelt
See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction. – George W. Bush
People who value their privileges above principles soon lose both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Climate scientists make their money and careers from government, the United Nations, foundations and academia. – Jonah Goldberg – USA Today – Climate Research Unit
Government does not solve problems—it subsidizes them. – Ronald Reagan
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“This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 24:14 – Apostle Matthew– The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. – Plato
A national sales tax would collect revenue from citizens, aliens, illegals and tourists equally. If you spend money in the new nation, you pay the sales tax. – Russell D. Longmire – A TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION
A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has had a chance to put its boots on. – Winston Churchill
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Lao Tzu
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. – Mohandas Gandhi
If you’re riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there. – Will Rogers
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. – Voltaire
The care of public health is the first duty of a statesman. – Benjamin Disraeli
In comic strips, people on the left always speak first. – George Carlin
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling. – George W. Bush
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln
If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. – Harry S. Truman
Character matters. Leadership descends from character. – Rush Limbaugh
“If the science of global warming is a slam dunk, why are CRU researchers keen on hiding the research?” – Jonah Goldberg – USA Today – Climate Research Unit
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. – Bill Clinton
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. – Theodore Roosevelt
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. – Ronald Reagan
Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution. The only way government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. – Ayn Rand
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“And He will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and neither will they learn war anymore.” – the Prophet Isaiah – Isa. 2:4 – the BIBLE – On the United Nations Plaza in New York.
“Dad used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes.” – Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON – Lewis R. Foster (Screenplay)
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat. – Martin Luther King Jr.
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. – P. J. O’Rourke
Wise men speak because they have something to say—fools because they have to say something. – Plato
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou
The president of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. – Gracie Allen
The word “Federal” should be dropped from the lexicon of a new nation. The new nation should be a single entity, not a confederation of states. The word “National” would be amore appropriate way to describe the new nation. – Russell D. Longmore – A TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION
A bad law is the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. – George Bernard Shaw
So long as a government sets the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill them. – Elbert Hubberd
A house divided against itself cannot stand. – Abraham Lincoln
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. – Rush Limbaugh
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle
Misery has to hide itself in silence—or it becomes treason. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
If nations strived for smaller government, wouldn’t there be a lot less opportunity for corruption? – Gary Pulliam
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“Let your Kingdom come, let your will take place, as in heaven also upon earth.” – A portion of the Model or Lord’s Prayer – Jesus Christ – Matt. 6:10 – apostle Matthew – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them? – Abraham Lincoln
I think we ought to make AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL the national anthem. It’s not about war, there’s no bombs bursting in air, no rocket’s red glare. It’s about the land, amber waves of grain. That sounds good to me. Plus, it’s a hell of a lot easier to sing. – Willie Nelson
In a country well-governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly-governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. – Confucius
The day people stop bringing you their problems, is the day you’ve stopped leading them. – Colin Powell
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff. – Frank Zappa
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenager. – P. J. O’Rourke
Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. – Elayne Boosler
Bureaucracy is the art of making the impossible possible – Javier Pascual Salceeda
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. – Lawrence Learmer
It is forbidden to kill—therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers to the sound of trumpets. – Voltaire
“Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question now what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” – George Orwell – Conclusion of ANIMAL FARM
False science is the excrement of the true. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
Fear is pain rising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. – S. A. Kierkegaard
It’s no so much that poverty breeds crime—crime breeds poverty! – Someone real smart
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“And in the days of those kings the God of Heaven will set up a Kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever.” – Prophet Daniel – Dan. 2:44 – The BIBLE
This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it’s all checks and no balances. – Gracie Allen
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. – Mark Twain
There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. – Will Rogers
Get that garbage out of here! It stinks like CAIRN! – My Momma (Cairn—short for carrion)
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by people who never listen to music anyway. – Bob Dylan
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. – P. J. O’Rourke
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed for our prisons. – John Ruskin
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition led to the rise of gang problems we have. – Drew Carey
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. – Victor Hugo
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. – Voltaire
Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Its absence means indifference, the most disastrous of all human failings. – Arthur Ponsomby
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Plato
There would be no need for deductions or filling out yearly tax forms. Hence, the Internal Revenue Service and all its complex tax stipulations would be abolished! All other taxes would thus be eliminated. No property tax, no personal property tax, estate tax, income tax, gift tax, capital gains, tariffs, duties, alternative minimum, use tax, Social Security, Medicare and self-employment taxes. – Russell D. Longmire – A NEW TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION (Speaking about a national sales tax on whatever one purchases)
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees the others. – Aristotle
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“The rich one rules the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender.” – Solomon – Prov. 22:7 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with no talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are unimportant. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. – Calvin Coolidge
The great do what they like—the little do what they can. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
As I would not be a slave, I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln
“The Constitution is not static but rather a living document, and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.” – Barak Obama – THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
Pursuing peace is more important than being right. – Gary Pulliam
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorant in the community. – Oscar Wilde
“If on a fieldtrip the Supreme Court goes off a cliff in a horrible bus accident, does that mean the Constitution goes off with it?” – Jonah Goldberg – U.S.A. TODAY
Mistakes are a fact of life—it’s the response to error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni
“Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due…and we wonder shy we’re a debtor nation!” – Molly Haskell – CONSUMING DESIRES
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion, but when he barks at strangers, it’s patriotism. – David Star Jordan
The most destructive criticism is indifference. – E. W. Howe
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems we have. – Ronald Reagan
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. – Kurt Vonnegut
The hardest thing to understand is income tax. – Albert Einstein
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“Keep on, then, seeking first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you.” – Apostle Matthew – Matt. 6:33 – The BIBLE
A real patriot is a guy who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. – Duh! - Unknown
Loving your enemies may be a lot to ask, but how about treating your friends a little better? – E. W. Howe
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon Bonaparte
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literature dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anais Nin
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true design. – Denis Diderot
Politicians and diapers need to be changed often, and for the same reason. – Mark Twain
There is no government on earth that educates its citizens like the Kingdom. – A true statement by a very wise man.
“A government is good when those near are happy and those far off are attracted.” – Confucius – ANELECTS – (XIII:16)
A national sales tax also encourages savings and investments. A national sales tax would radically change the way government does business, and it would also encourage everyone to be in charge of their own money. It would slowly motivate people to relinquish their dependence on government entitlements and subsidies. – Russell D. Longmore – A TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. – Carl Sagan
I love Victor Hugo because he seemed to be the social conscience of the downtrodden. He was not afraid to condemn society, politics and religion. He elevated the sanctity of life and his works became a platform for political and social reform. – Gary Pulliam on Victor Hugo
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. – Frank Zappa
The directions in which society is moving have become infinitely more complex, and for many of us the dilemmas are terrifying. What guidance can professional historians offer to confused people today? Not very much, it seems. – Pardon E. Tillinghast (Historian)
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. – Molly Ivins
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“But before all these things happen, people will lay their hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors on account of my name.” – Jesus Christ – Luke 21:12 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” – Abraham Lincoln (from DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE)
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and war. – Dale Carnegie
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge is power. If you can control information, you can control people. – Tom Clancy
The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people. – Bill Clinton
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic—life under a bad government is always so. – Oscar Wilde
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it is connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civilized government with the principles of Christianity. – John Quincy Adams
It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited Federal government. – Alexander Hamilton
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise misplaced power exists and will persist. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects to it. The history of liberty is a history of the limitations of government power, not the increase of it. – Woodrow Wilson
‘They’ told us that, if we’d just be more generous with poor folks, there’d be no motive for stealing anymore. So we gave everyone a guaranteed income—and robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft are running 15% ahead of a year ago. – Paul Harvey
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. – Thomas Jefferson
“We are being confronted by something so outside our collective experience that we don’t really see it, even when the evidence is overwhelming. For us, that something is a blitz of enormous biological and physical alterations in the world that has been sustaining us.” – Ed Ayres – A GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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Politics is made up with two words: ‘Poli’ which means ‘many’ and ‘tics’ which are blood-sucking insects. – Gore Vidal
Gay activists claim that because I don’t subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder – because that is what phobias are. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
“Man’s unbroken string of failures in the past builds up within us no confidence in man’s ability to succeed in the future. Unless Jehovah does something for those dead politicians and leaders by means of a resurrection of the dead, they have perished forever!” – Words that changed my life!
In the Soviet Union capitalism triumphed over Communism. In this country capitalism triumphed over democracy. – Ann Landers
