Archived Links/Quotes

Links:

WSJ online Best of the Web
Real Clear Politics
American Thinker
daybydaycartoon
national review corner blog
How to Raise an American — Link to Book on Amazon

Quotes:

Edmund Burke: “All that is required for evil to triumph is for a few good men to do nothing.”

Ronald Reagan: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

Margaret Thatcher - “Hope is no basis for a defence policy.”

Ronald Reagan: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Chriss A. Winston: If we, as a nation, allow this growing cynicism to continue to infect our youngest generations, we put them and our country’s future at risk. (from “How to Raise an American”)

James Taranto Best of the Web - Wall Street Journal Online: On the retreat from Iraq promised by Democrats: “Mrs. Clinton may be cynical enough to tell Democratic voters what they want to hear. Obama may even be naive enough to believe it. But presidents are called on to make actual decisions; they do not have the luxury of heedlessness to the consequences.”

Winston Churchill - The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Lula Belle McLey Puckett - I’d rather be around a thief than a liar because you can lock stuff up from a thief, but you can’t do a damned thing about a liar!