"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." --Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." --Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." --Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are
worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against
all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy
ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of
treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.
It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation,
enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by
violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of
false and designing men." --Samuel Adams, 1771
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and
protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known
to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
--David Mamet (b. 1947)
"If you factor in the millions of dead Clinton supporters," says Greenberg, "the approval rating is more like 66%." Clinton fared better among women, especially in crucial suburban swing districts. These so-called "soccer moms" threw their support behind the president by a margin of 69% - 28%, with 3% undecided. The approval rate rose to a stunning 91% among insecure, wealthy, low-IQ women who drive Lexus SUVs, read "People" and "Mirabella", and sit on their fat ass, drunk all day watching weepy made-for-TV movies on the "Lifetime" cable TV network. --The IowaHawk, www.freerepublic.com
Perhaps there is a fantasy among statists that, if they were simply honest about their true sentiments, the common people would collapse in enthralled adoration. If anyone has this disease, it is certainly Hillary Rodham. If anyone would collapse in enthralled adoration, it would be Dan Rather. --Bill Westmiller
"When ya come home you can eat poke 'n beans..I eats mo' chicken any man seen...Well now, men don't know what da little goils unda-stand." --Howlin' Wolf, "Back Door Man"
"Could be a spoonful o' water, save me from the desert sands Could be a spoon o' dat forty-five, save me from another man." --Howlin' Wolf on the usefulness of handguns for self-defense, "Spoonful"
"Democracy is a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses." --H.L. Mencken
"Democracy is a form of breakfast. It is the drinking of very small cups of orange juice by senior citizens." --Ted Williams
"An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power." --Henry Kissinger
"An expert is someone who articulates the needs of senior citizens." --George Goebels
"It'll be a great day when the schools have all the money they need and the Pentagon has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." --seen as a bumper sticker
"It'll be a great day when the prisons have all the inmates they need and the Pentagon bombs the schools." --Phil Blumel
"It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island." --Jesse Jackson
Rest assured, I can't count the number of times I've wanted to announce that we may need to picket, demonstrate, march, or strike to stop Tom before he can reduce history to an overdetermined, wireframe sketch of what are, in reality, complex, dynamic events. Unlike Tom, I have chosen to take the moral high ground and will remain there. -Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom? -Charles Grodin
Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed. -Linda "bo-binda" Chavez
He wins pseudo-intellectuals over to his side using big words like "paradichlorobenzene." -Saul Bellow
Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon. -Dionne Warwick
My little sauerkraut. You breathe very well. I love Tom, who is very intelligent and tiny. He is a much better person than you. You are stark naked. I will love forever. -loose translation of overheard cell phone conversation between Marie-Chantal of Greece and supermodel Mark Vanderloo
An EVIL travel agent? -Tom Walls' father, Dr. Evil, upon hearing about his son's job
"To this day, it is 1999, isn't the male primarily responsible for the physical defense of the American home? If you hear a creak on the floor downstairs in the middle of the night, the woman never says, 'Let me check.' You have to check. ... I mean, give me a break! The reason men are more pro-gun is because they are responsible for the physical protection of the American home." -- "Hardball" host Chris Matthews
To be continued...
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