Quotes for Election “Season”

October 27, 2008

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"
-Winston Churchill


"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock"-Thomas Jefferson


"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."Napoleon Bonaparte


"Resolution One: I will live for God.  Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."-Jonathan Edwards


"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may treasure the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
-John Adams


"It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right." -Robert Louis Dabney


"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."-Alexis de Tocqueville


"The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict."-Andrew Bernstein


“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”-Winston Churchill, address at Harrow School, October 29, 1941


"If you keep on doing what you've always done, you're gonna keep on getting what you always got." -?


"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
-Barry Goldwater


"That government is best which governs least."
-Thomas Paine


"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y.  But they're both just aspirin."-Gore Vidal


"Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'"
-Harry Browne


"To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying."
-Richard Henry Lee


"What God put in his hand to do, he must do, however unlikely results might appear." -Michael Phillips and Judith Pella, in Treasure of Stonewycke

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