"Liberals measure compassion by how many people are getting welfare,
conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it".
--Rush Limbaugh
“I am a Republican, because it is a national party seeking the greatest
good for the greatest number of citizens. It assures protection to life
and property, the public credit, and the payment of the debts of the
government, state, county, or municipality, so far as it can control.
The Democratic party does not promise this; if it does it has broken its
promises to the extent of hundreds of millions. I am a Republican,
because it fosters the production of the field and farm, and of
manufactories, and it encourages the general education of the poor as
well as the rich.
The Democratic party discourages all these when in absolute power.
The Republican party is a party of progress, and of liberty toward its
opponents. It encourages the poor to strive to better their children,
to enable them to compete successfully with their more fortunate associates,
and, in fine, it secures an entire equality before the law of every citizen,
no matter what his race, nationality, or previous condition. Every one
has the opportunity to make himself all he is capable of. The Republican
party is a party of principles; the same principles prevailing wherever it
has a foothold.
The Democratic party is united in but one thing, and that is in getting
control of the government in all its branches. It is for internal
improvement at the expense of the government in one section and against
this in another. It favors repudiation of solemn obligations in one
section and honest payment of its debts in another, where public opinion
will not tolerate any other view. It favors fiat money in one place and
good money in another. Finally, it favors the pooling of all issues not
favored by the Republicans, to the end that it may secure the one principle
upon which the party is a most harmonious unit--namely, getting control of
the government in all its branches.”
- Ulysses S. Grant in 1880 to a gathering in Warren, Ohio.
--Rob Long of National Review on American Taliban, John Walker Lindh:
"The product of rich divorced parents from Marin County, California (are there
any other kind?), he was raised in the very crucible of cultural nuttiness
at the absolute zenith of its pervasiveness.
He is a child of hot tubs, massage therapy, cultural relativeness, amicable
divorce, racial guilt, vegan diets, chardonnay anti-Americanism, and "Teach
Peace" bumper stickers. He is the product of gray bearded radical high
school history teachers, old Volvos, public radio, wolrd beat music, women's
book stores, pita wrap sandwiches, and clunky brown sandals.
He is.....well, you know who he is. He's a rich American kid from a rich
American town who was raised to believe that every crazy idea and every
loony impulse he ever had was valid, that all cultures are basically equal
(except for ours, which is a good deal worse), and that America is a pretty
bad place. When he walked into his house wearing a skullcap and dashiki
at age 17, why didn't anyone knock him upside his head?"
"In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of
consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect
to be treated badly. Nonetheless, they must stand undaunted.
That is required. And, that should be expected. For, it
is bravery that is required to secure freedom."
--Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
"Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, but Democrats
believe every day is April 15th."
--Ronald Reagan
"Acknowledging God as the source of our unalienable rights placed
those rights forever beyond the reach of man. By the same token,
if we forsake God, those rights are no longer guaranteed. At once,
they may be discussed, debated, altered, eliminated. They become
the battleground of political activists, the plaything of demagogues."
--Balint Vazsonyi
"Fathers are apparently dispensable (for liberals) in all aspects of
child rearing, except the important role of spiriting their children
back to a communist dictatorship. Then the father's wishes must be
respected. The left has never thought parents important enough to be
informed if their minor children have abortions, perennially opposing
parental notification laws. Indeed, fathers are so irrelevant under
the law that they have no say over the decision of whether or not thier
own children will be aborted. Elian's mother could have aborted
Elian without input from the father, but she can't give him freedom
without the father's consent."
--Ann Coulter
"There is nothing dishonorable about politics. It reflects the people
who are in it. If the good people leave politics to the bad people,
then good folks have no one to blame but themselves for the sorry results.
The only alternative to choosing rulers with ballots is to choose them
with bullets. Trust me, whatever defects our system has, it is far
better than elections won or lost with gunfire and death. One of the
blessings we as Americans have is the knowledge that ours is virtually
the only revolution in the history of the world that did not produce a
dictator. People alive at that time understood that was because of
the character of George Washington, which is why he was so revered and
deserves today to be revered."
--Charley Reese
"When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain,
the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of
Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual
way to enslave them..."
