” Sodom and Gomorrah is the liberal picture of a healthy society, a society without hangups.”

-Ben Hart, Escapetyranny.com

“The problem is not just that some leftists can’t understand the love that some people feel for their unborn children — or for their children who (like Sarah Palin’s son Trig) were born with disabilities. What really infuriates is the contempt they show for parents who make different choices than they would . . . and the smug arrogance with which they pronounce judgment on the most intimate aspects of others’ private lives.” – Eugene Robinson

“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”   – Ronald Reagan

“…[I]t is to the property of the citizen, and not to the demands of the creditor of the state, that the first and original faith of civil society is pledged. The claim of the citizen is prior in time, paramount in title, superior in equity. The fortunes of individuals, whether possessed by acquisition or by descent or in virtue of a participation in the goods of some community, were no part of the creditor’s security, expressed or implied…[T]he public, whether represented by a monarch or by a senate, can pledge nothing but the public estate; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.” – Edmund Burke

“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that its difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.“ -James Madison

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me ‘to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.’  — George Washington

“We should not have an ‘open mind’ because that means we grant plausibility to anything, however, we should have a discerning mind.” - Mike Mentzer

“While serving as Grand Marshal at a NASCAR event, Michelle Obama was booed by the crowd. Maybe because, if her husband had his way, all the cars on the track would be electric.”

~ Fred Thompson

“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another.”  –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, 1821

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”

~ Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

“Washington asking for more tax revenue is like an alcoholic asking for more cash before a trip to the liquor store. Even if the alcoholic asked a millionaire for the cash, it doesn’t change the fact that the money’s not being wisely used.” – Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)

“When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it’s legal. I’m getting out before the Democrats make it mandatory.” – Sgt Harry Berres, USMC

“America is going to be guided by some set of values. The question is gonna be whose values? It’s those Christian values that this country was based upon.”

- Rick Perry

“People often ask me what advice I would give the White House about various things. Today I was mulling over election results from New York and Nevada while thinking about that very question. What should the White House do now? One word came to mind: Panic. The course we are on is not working. The hour is late, and the need is great. Fire. Indict. Fight.”

-James Carville apparently starting to panic

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”

~ Patrick Henry

 ”Liberty has no greater ally than believing Christians of all stripes.”

-David Limbaugh

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
— Thomas Paine

“It’s easy to forget, once we’ve cleaned them up and chiseled them into nice, sanitary, granite that the Founders were, literally and figuratively, the Tea Partiers of their day. They too were scorned by their elitists, the Royalists, as seditious riffraff. Polite society heaped our Founders with much the same contempt as our governing class now reserves for the modern Tea Party.”

- Ralph Benko

The Quakes in DC were nothing more than the Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves. We said it enough times that they actually did it….

~Morgan McComb

“People have predicted the end of America in the past and been wrong, but let’s face it: If you’re trying to borrow $9 trillion to save your financial system…and already half your public debt held by foreigners, it’s not really the conduct of rising empires, is it?”

- Niall Ferguson

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

-Benjamin Franklin

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.– —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted,
the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the
voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to
triumph. ~ Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, 4 Oct 63

“In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, ‘We can’t drill our way out of this crisis.”’ What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, ‘You can’t eat your way out of being hungry!’ ‘You can’t water your way out of drought!’ ‘You can’t sleep your way out of tiredness!’ ‘You can’t drink yourself out of dehydration!’ Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn’t going to increase the supply of oil? It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.”

-Ann Coulter

“I suspect that the media feeding frenzy Stanley describes has less to do with an impulse to lampoon the ridiculous than an impulse to ridicule Christianity in general. Despite Camping and his followers being an extremely small fringe group, the media has covered this story as if the entire Southern Baptist church made this prediction. . . . It’s not out of bounds to chuckle over the gullibility of those who rely on false prophets, but it’s worth considering who and what benefits from this avalanche of coverage of an obscure, already-discredited crank.”

-ED MORRISSEY

Is the Rapture schadenfreude turning sinister?

“I know some of you are concerned about when the Navy SEALs raided Osama’s compound, whether he was then shot in the face in accordance with Islamic tradition. Well, don’t worry; he absolutely was. The very last thing anyone wanted was for Osama to think while he was being killed, ‘They’re doing this to me because I’m Muslim!’ Because, again, that would definitely not be true. So great care was taken, and he was shot in the face in a religiously respectful way. For instance, none of the Navy SEALs in the raid were eating a pork sandwich as they did it. And none of them had on them any depictions of Muhammad (PBUH). Also, the raid was done between prayer times — not during! And when Osama was shot in the face, he was facing westward. I’m not sure that’s actually religiously important, but if it is, then, yes, he was doing that. And when he was shot, the traditional Muslim expression of ‘Allahu Akbar!’ was shouted — except it was an English translation, so it was something like, ‘Thank you, Jesus!’”

–humor columnist Frank J. Fleming

“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.”

–George Washington

“Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.”

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

“[Obama] is so unpopular right now, people in Kenya are accusing him of being born in the United States.”

- Jay Leno

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out where the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory or defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt – 26th U.S. President

“Despite the urgency, it appears that the Libyan insurrection likely will be over before the Obama administration makes any decision as to what to do about it. It may well be that the best course has always been to do nothing. But if that is the case, what was the point of Obama’s pronouncement that Qaddafi ‘must’ go? If it is important that Qaddafi go, then why is the United States unwilling to lift a finger to bring about the event that ‘must’ happen? And how can a situation simultaneously be urgent, but not worth doing anything about? Weakness, incoherence, drift, indecision–these are the hallmarks of the Obama administration. We are beginning to get a sense of what a world without American leadership looks like.”

- John at Powerlineblog

“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”

–Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

“The Obama way fails. Socialism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, whatever strain of big-governmentism you want to cite, the evidence is that [it] generates failure, misery, unhappiness, squalor, certainly not prosperity except for the people at the top. So when the evidence is clear that [Obama's] way doesn’t work and you keep doubling down on your way, what does it say? Does it say that you’re stupid, naive, ignorant, unaware, or does it say that you are an arrogant, egotistical guy who thinks [Socialism] works, it just hasn’t been tried by the right guy yet?”

- Rush Limbaugh

“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” ~ James Madison, Federalist No. 48

For Christmas I used some of those great gift cards to buy a Kindle – which I had no interest in at all until I saw one and saw the screen technology.  Impressive to say the least… Over the holiday I managed to actually read 2 books.  It was fantastic.  One a classic (A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne) and one another modern day prophecy (Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy).

One cool feature about the Kindle is that you can highlight and make clippings of quotes that you want to remember… and so it is with the quote of the day, heard before in different contexts, and still so appropriate today.

But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.

Jules Verne – A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Julian Assange [of Wikileaks] likes to portray himself as a champion of truth, But the reality is much less flattering. Look at the Afghanistan ‘war logs,’ for example: WikiLeaks plainly wanted to cause maximum damage to the coalition’s war effort, but nothing was done to hide the identities of Afghan informants – so the Taliban duly promised to ‘punish them.’ “Mr. Assange claims to have pure motives, but he hasn’t shown a shred of remorse about this.

It seems that as long as the United States and the West is embarrassed on the world stage, the founder of WikiLeaks is a happy man. If he’s really opposed to corruption and human rights abuses, why hasn’t he turned his special talents to countries like Iran, China or Russia? The answer is simple — there is anti-American agenda behind much of Julian Assange’s work.

- Will Heaven, of the Telegraph newspaper

“At the same time that the federal government is mandating the physical and constitutional violation of air travelers at our airports, they are prohibiting law enforcement officers in Arizona from asking for proof of identity and citizenship from those they suspect as being illegal aliens for ‘constitutional’ concerns.”

– Doug Hagmann

When the liberals take control it’s like giving a seventeen year old boy the keys to the Porsche, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and letting him ask your teen age daughter to go along for the ride.

-poster DaveTesla at FreeRepublic.com