"We'll all be home for Christmas. God bless America ." - John McCain, sent via 'tap code' to a fellow POW at the Hanoi Hilton, 12/1968. [at the time, he had little or no real hope of EVER seeing home again.]
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Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded. --Senator William Jenner
Originally posted by 84fiero123: Hey I didn’t say I wasn’t a pervert.
Sorry, couldn't help it.
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It's the Soldier, not the reporter Who has given us the freedom of the press. It's the Soldier, not the poet, Who has given us the freedom of speech. It's the Soldier, not the politicians That ensures our right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. It's the Soldier who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag.
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"Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you're a -- you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." - G Dub
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Posts: 35468 From: Orlando, Florida Registered: Oct 2001
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -David Bissonette When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -Sacha Guitry After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. -Hemant Joshi By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -Socrates Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. -Dumas The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want?" -Sigmund Freud I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. -Anonymous Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. -Henny Youngman I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -Sam Kinison There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -James Holt McGavran I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't. -Patrick! Murray Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up. -Nash The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... -Anonymous You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. -Henny Youngman My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. -Rodney Dangerfield A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. -Milton Berle Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy. -Anonymous A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine." -Anonymous
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The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. -- Teddy Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918
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Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Son of Righteousness! Light and life to all He brings Ris'n with healing in His wings Mild He lays His glory by Born that man no more may die Born to raise the sons of earth Born to give them second birth Hark! The herald angels sing "Glory to the newborn King!"
-Charles Wesley
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“At the beginning of the Iraq war I saw a red, white, and blue bumper sticker that said UNITED WE STAND. What is that supposed to mean? During the Revolutionary War it referred to the American colonies. What does it mean now? That we should all think alike and there should be no dissenting opinions? As far as I’m concerned, United We’re F***ed.” –George Carlin
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"Well believe me, I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid... and I went ahead anyway. " President Bush on entering Iraq, or, Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater; take your pick
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"Above these [citizens] an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves. It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances; can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living? Subjection in small affairs manifests itself every day and makes itself felt without distinction by all citizens. It does not make them desperate, but it constantly thwarts them and brings them to renounce the use of their wills. Thus little by little, it extinguishes their spirits and enervates their souls."
Alexis de Tocqueville, from "Democracy in America" 1835
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Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. -Ayn Rand
“At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just not facing the truth. Some are evil men at war with good, and some are good struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world. Six billion souls. And sometimes all you need is one.” - Peyton Conway March