posted on Jul, 1 2003 @ 03:39 AM
I was lurking, and i found those sentences, i found them pretty interesting, what are your thoughts about it?
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THE FOUNDATION
"The Declaration of Independence... [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson
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INSIGHT
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a
world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." --General Omar Bradley
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ICTUS IMPRIMIS
"The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the
teachings...of Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days." --Harry Truman
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FAMILY
"It's well past time for [Leftism] to be declared a religion and banned from public schools. Allowing Christians to be one of many after-school
groups induces hysteria not just because liberals hate religion. It's because the public school is their temple. Children must be taught to love Big
Brother, welcoming him to take over our schools, our bank accounts, our property, even our toilet bowls." --Ann Coulter
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CULTURE
"The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name
(unfavorable or blasphemous mentions, we are told, are protected by the same First Amendment that prohibits favorable mentions). But no atheist can be
forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and
diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God." --Cal Thomas
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LIBERTY
"Nowhere have people been willing to work as well for the common good as they do for their own benefit. Perhaps in some other galaxy there are
creatures who would, but the track record of socialism among human beings on earth shows that this is not the place. Worst of all, the concentration
of political power necessary to try to reduce economic inequalities has allowed tyrants like Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot to impose their notions and
caprices on millions of others -- draining them economically or slaughtering them en masse or exploiting them sexually. Mao Zedong, for example, had
harems of young girls -- and occasionally boys -- for his pleasure in various parts of China. There is no point blaming the tragedies of socialism on
the flaws or corruption of particular leaders. Any system which allows some people to exercise unbridled power over other people is an open invitation
to abuse, whether that system is called slavery or socialism or something else. Socialism has long sought to create a heaven on earth but an even
older philosophy pointed out that the road to hell is paved with good intentions." --Thomas Sowell
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THE GIPPER
"But bearing what we cannot change and going on with what God has given us, confident there is a destiny, somehow seems to bring a reward we
wouldn't exchange for any other. It takes a lot of fire and heat to make a piece of steel." --Ronald Reagan
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OPINION IN BRIEF
"Authority does not prove truth. ...Majority does not prove truth. The majority can and often has been dead wrong. That's why you cannot determine
either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions. Beware of propaganda." --Charley Reese
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GOVERNMENT
"When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends
his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man
spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And
when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for
you." --Economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman