Quotes: Misc. Part 5

Living is the process of preparing to be dead for a very long time.

- William Faulkner

Duct tape is like the force: it has a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together.

Sometimes you can go around trouble. Sometimes you must go through it.

Jesus died to take away your sins, not your mind.

Its more fun to catch a fish than to clean it.

The golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

Character is who you are when no one is around.

There are 60 million evangelicals in America; in the last election [2000] only 15 million voted (24 million of those 60 million evangelicals are not even registered to vote)!
- Wallbuilders

Democracy is nothing more than the numerous and their manipulators bullying the less numerous. It is an elaborate and deceptive rationalization for the strong in numbers to impose their will on the electorally weak by means of centralized state coercion ...

Both forms of government feature voting by the people to select officials. The primary difference between them is that while republican voting is done for the purpose of choosing officials to administer the government in the pursuit of its narrowly defined functions, democratic voting is done, not only to select officials but also to determine the functions and goals and powers of the government. 

The guiding principle of republics is they exercise narrow powers delegated to them by the people, who themselves, as individuals, possess such powers.

- James Ostrowski's

Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope or power – and usually all three. Over the last 100 years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans. Include regulations and foreign policy, as well as budgets approved by a Republican Congress, and a picture begins to emerge of the Republican Party as a reliable engine of government growth.
- James Ostrowski's

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 

Republicans need to understand we already have a contract with America – the Constitution. 
- Joseph Farah

I am no Republican. I think it's a party of shameless political whores who have shown time and time again that they have no intention of living up to their professed ideals. But, man, seeing the Democrats get spanked like that still puts a little spring in my step. 
- Vox Day

[L]ack of socialization is the bugaboo of the anti-homeschooler. Of course, socialization during my high-school years largely consisted of learning how to be cruel to others, valuing the judgment of one's peers in the place of one's elders and improving one's sexual technique. So, if you're really concerned that your homeschooled child lacks socialization, a rigorous schedule of Vivid films and Nietzsche should set them straight in no time. 
- Vox Day

Watermelon - Green on the outside, red on the inside. Enviornmentalists disguising their Marxist agenda.
- Ilana Mercer (paraphrased)

Reds, and now Greens, agree that wise bureaucrats alone have the wherewithal to make decisions for billions of people.
- Ilana Mercer 

Depredation, overuse and wastage are attributes ofgovernment-managed resources.
- Ilana Mercer 

[C]ommunist custodianship removes all the attributes of private property, chiefly, the incentive to conserve.
- Ilana Mercer 

The totalitarian, myth-worshipping environmentalists are hostile not only to The Good Life, but the life itself.
- Ilana Mercer 

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
- James Madison, 1794

With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
- James Madison 

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
- Thomas Jefferson

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust...is in reality expressing the highest respect for law...We will not obey your evil laws... 
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. 
- George Washington 

Those who never make mistakes usually end up working for those who aren't afraid to.

IBM founder Tom Watson's formula for success was to double you number of failures.

When I was a young man I found that nine out of ten things I tried didn't work. So I did ten times the work.
- George Bernard Shaw

The greatest danger is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that our aim is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo

The National Religious Partnership for the Environment campaign poses the question "What would Jesus Drive?" saying that clergy should denounce SUVs as sinful. 

Roy Rivenberg has conducted a study of the Bible and discovered that Jesus would most likely drive a 1965 Plymouth, because the Bible says that "God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden in a Fury." 

It is possible, however, that Jesus may drive a Pontiac, or a Geo. Psalms 83 says, "pursue your enemies with your Tempest and terrify them with your Storm." 

- Harry Lamb

Libertarians and conservatives think that America is great because of the dynamic of freedom, economic liberty, the rule of law and limited government. Liberals think that America is great because of government.

"Let me adjust my hearing aid. It could not accommodate the decibels of the senator [Ted Kennedy] from Massachusetts. I can't match him in decibels or Jezebels." - Jesse Helms

Affluenza - always needed bigger, better, and more of everything

Median house sizes
1949: 1,100 sq. ft.
1970: 1,385 sq. ft.
1993: 2,060 sq. ft.

Sq. ft. per person
1950: 312 sq. ft.
1993: 742 sq. ft.

Statistics are just a group of numbers looking for an argument

Let truth and falsehood grapple together freely, for whoever knew truth to lose out in a free and open encounter?
- John Milton

Jesus spoke of a time when people would say
"Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed!"
(see Luke 23:29)

The most merciful thing a large family can do for one of its infant members is to kill it.
- Margaret Sanger (the late founder of Planned Parenthood)
(Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (New York: Brentano’s, 1920), 63.)

Stop Capital Punishment
for unborn babies

To argue for abortion on demand from the hard cases of rape and incest is like trying to argue for the elimination of traffic laws from the fact that one might have to violate some of them in rare instances, such as when one’s spouse or child needs to be rushed to the hospital.
- Francis Beckwith

Tolerance when it comes to personal relationships is a virtue, but tolerance when it comes to truth is a travesty.
- Hank Hanegraaff

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- Max Planck

Illegals bring with them their culture, which at home produced the very conditions they now flee.
- Craige McMillan

The only war the Democratic Party supports is the class war
- Craige McMillan

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.
– Albert Jay Nock 

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from each other.
- Oscar Ameringer

In times of universal corruption honourable men gather together in prison.
- John Milton

The trouble with democracy is that it allows for the violation of the rights of the minority. The beauty of a constitutional republic and the rule of law is that it does not.
- Joseph Farah

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As long as I can remember, I've had memories.
- Colin Mocrie, Who's Line is it Anyway

Government...is the only power on earth capable of the kind of mass annihilation for which the twentieth century is notorious.
- Joseph Farah, Taking America Back, p.162

Unrestrained freedom is anarchy. Restrained only by force and arms, is despotism; self-restrained is Republicanism. Wherever there is wanted the intelligence and virtue requisite for [self-restraint], Republicanism expires.
- Edmund B. Fairfield, President of Hillsdale College 1853

Our top story: NASA sends probe to Uranus. People everywhere giggle.
- Colin Mocree, Who's Line

So if you're feeling depressed -- if you think the world is in terrible shape, and one person like yourself can't make a difference -- remember this: You're right.
- Dave Barry

When people hurt, government's got to move.
- George Bush, Labor Day 2003

Scary headline: Gangs in Armor - Wearing bullet-proof vests not illegal and that has cops worried

If there be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Thomas Paine

Robert Byrd ... He was in the Ku Klux Klan! He's demented. You know this guy's burning the cross at both ends! 
-Comedian Dennis Miller

Home schooling is a very old way of doing things. If you look at any of the bills in your wallet or the coins in your pocket, they all have a picture of a home-schooler on them.
- William Lloyd, National Home Education Research Institute, Baltimore Sun, 9/15/03

The question is not whether the suffering and dying person's life should be terminated; the question is what kind of nation will we become if they are.
- William Federer

My hope of salvation is that God will outmaneuver me for my entire life.

A man who was swallowed by a whale today escaped by running all the way down to the end until he was pooped out.
- Colin Mocrie, Who's Line Is It Anyway?

A day may come when the courage of men fail. But it is not this day. This day we fight.
- Aragorne, Return of the King

Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as "viruses," "worms," "Trojan horses" and "licensed Microsoft software" that can take over your computer and render it useless.
- Dave Barry 

And as long as we have a profligate welfare state, there's nothing wrong in stopping would-be parasites at the border. 
- Ilana Mercer 

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ...
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."
- Alan Greenspan

[A] person living in the 20th century was 4 times more likely to be killed by his own government than in war or civil war, and 17.3 times more likely to be legally killed by an employee acting on behalf of his legitimate government than to be murdered by a criminal acting on his own.
- Vox Day

Not all governments turn on their people in a lethal manner, but 35 percent of the 191 United Nations member states have murdered at least 10,000 of their own citizens in the last century, with an average of 122,565 victims apiece.
- Vox Day

Remember sin? That's what people did before they became "dysfunctional."
- Cal Thomas

What Congress has given, congress should not take away.
- Bush speaking of taxes in his state of the union, 2004

If the unborn is not a human being, no justification for abortion is necessary.
However, if the unborn is a human being, no justification for abortion is adequate.
- Gregory Koukl, Stand to Reason

The entire Western world is now embracing ideas that sickened them when practiced by Adolf Hitler. 
- Joseph Farah

Maybe we wouldn't need so many illegal foreign workers in this country if we didn't legalize the murder of our own children.
- Joseph Farah

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. 

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The language of small government and freedom was not an article of faith for them, but rather, a rhetorical device with which the power they craved could be wrested from the powers-that-were in the Democratic Party.
- Vox Day, speaking of Republicans at the national convention he attended in a Houston

Power is useless – totally useless – if it is not wielded justly in the cause of the right and the true.
- Vox Day

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
-Sam Brown 

The ozone layer or cheese in a spray can. Don't make me choose. 

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. 

I dont know what your problem is, but I'll bet its hard to pronounce.

When you throw mud at others, you're going to lose a lot of ground.

My children want to thank Santa Clause for putting gifts in his stocking.
Who do I thank for putting two feet in mine?
- Ravi Zacharius

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- Thomas Jefferson

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
- Ayn Rand

I have always contended that bigots are just plain lazy, and that if you just take the trouble to know people as individuals, almost invariably you will discover better reasons to despise them other than their race, religion or sexual proclivity.
- Burt Prelutsky

People are like teabags, if you want to see what's inside, just put them in hot water.

My only regret in life is that none of my children are gay.
- Sharon Osbourne, wife of rocker Ozzy at the 15th annual GLADD Awards

Most of the evil done in the world has been done by government.
- Walter Williams