Quotes.........

[Keith_Hixson]

Originally Posted by DeadlyDaring

There are three ways of trying to win the young.
There is persuasion, there is compulsion and there is attraction.
You can preach at them, that is a hook without a worm.
You can say ' you must volunteer', that is of the devil.
And you can tell them 'you are needed'.
That hardly ever fails.

Whoever wrote that didn't understand modern western culture. "you are needed" would get a "ya right" now days.

Keith

[HARDCORE]

"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas."
-- Agatha Christie
[Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Lady Mallowan] (1890-1976) English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott



"Public educators, like Soviet farmers, lack any incentive to produce results, innovate, to be efficient, to make the kinds of of difficult changes that private firms operating in a competitive market must make to survive."
-- Carolyn Lochhead --- American journalist



"Government schools can't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic -- why should we trust them to teach morality, respect, and character? If public education does for ethics what it's done for learning, we'll end up with a generation of immoral, disrespectful, and characterless students."
-- Steve Dasbach
Chair of the Libertarian National Committee (1993-1998) and its National Executive Director (1998-2002)

[HARDCORE]

Can any nation be truly judged, for better or worse, than by the combined mentality, the human frailties, or the lack of genuine integrity that resides within the souls of it's inhabitance? H. Rick Tavares 17 January 2009
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It is always the wealthy who lament that the rich will burn in hell, but this has never stopped them in their vested and me-ist pursuits of just one more dime!! H. Rick Tavares 17 January 2009
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Who among us has the ordained or inalienable right to silence burgeoning brilliance, or to attempt to stifle free thought, through the dictates of the clique or the mandates of vested political and financial power alone? H. Rick Tavares 17 January 2009

[HARDCORE]

"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
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"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
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"I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

[STYCK]

Accept....THAT..some days your the pigeon...some days your the statue
Always keep your words soft and sweet..just in case you have to eat them

Always read stuff that will make you look good.if you die in the middle of it

Drive carefully...it's not always cars the can be re called by their maker

If you can't be kind..at least have the decency to be vague

It you lend someone $20 and never see that person again...it was probably worth it

It may be that your sole purpose in life..is simply serve as a warning to others

Never buy a car you can't push

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time...becausethen you won't have a leg to stand on

Nobody cares if you don't dance well...Just get up and dance

Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird..sleep late

The second mouse gets the cheese

When everything is coming at you....your in the wrong lane

Birthdays are good for you...the more you have..the longer you live

You may be the only person in the world...but you may also be the world to one person

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once

We could learn a lot from a box of crayons...
Some are sharp,some are pretty,and some are dull
Some have wierd names....and all are different colors
BUT THEY ALL HAVE TO LIVE IN THE SAME BOX

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery...on a detour

[HARDCORE]

"The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity."
-- George Washington (1732-1799)
Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'
Source: letter to Gouverneur Morris, 1795

[HARDCORE]

"We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections."
-- John Adams - (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: Inaugural Address, March 4, 1797

[HARDCORE]

"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. 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
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source: letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822, Ref: Letters and other Writings of James Madison, vol. 3 (276)
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"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."
-- James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source: referring to a bill to subsidize cod fisherman introduced in the first year of the new Congress
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"There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence."
-- James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source: Speech in Congress, 22 April 1790

[HARDCORE]

"There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."
-- John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963) 35th US President
Source: Address, 27 April 1961

[HARDCORE]

"Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country."

Quote by: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Humorist