Archive for the 'Quotes' Category
I’ve been thinking of this quote lately, and I’ve posted it two times before but I was looking through some posts from a year ago this month and found it. “In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of [...]
October 12th, 2009 | Posted in History, Humor, Politics, Quotes | Comments Off
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.” -H. L. Mencken
October 7th, 2009 | Posted in Politics, Quotes | Comments Off
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” -G. K. Chesterton
October 4th, 2009 | Posted in History, Politics, Quotes | Comments Off
“A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.” -Theodore Roosevelt
September 22nd, 2009 | Posted in History, Politics, Quotes, Sunshine Empire Masters Series | Comments Off
Theodore Roosevelt predicted the first decade of the 21st century all the way from the first decade of the 20th. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” -Theodore Roosevelt
September 22nd, 2009 | Posted in History, Quotes, Sunshine Empire Masters Series | Comments Off
“This is a five-spiral crash, boys.” -George W. Bush (In reference to the McCain campaign for president, from Matt Latimer’s forthcoming book)
September 15th, 2009 | Posted in 2008, Politics, Quotes | Comments Off
“Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ” -Richard M. Nixon
September 15th, 2009 | Posted in History, Politics, Quotes | Comments Off
“Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.” -Senator Edward M. Kennedy (RIP 1932-2009)
August 26th, 2009 | Posted in History, Politics, Quotes | Comments Off
“the worst and most vile form of political hate speech.” -Ed Gillespie (Former Republican National Committee Chairman in 2004 referring to comparison of President George W. Bush and Adolph Hitler.)
August 19th, 2009 | Posted in History, Politics, Quotes | Comments Off