"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." Theodore
Roosevelt
This country, with its institutions,belongs to the people who inhabit
it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can
exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary
right to dismember or overthrow it. - Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.
- from Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927 - 2003
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught
in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called
at once a lunatic and fool -- Plato
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and a
Conscientious stupidity. -MARTIN LUTHER KING
"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy
the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen
of his plight." John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination.
"Christianity, like Judaism before it, is not a biblical religion, despite
all its assertions, since its theologies are Greek, not Hebrew, even as normative
Judaism, a second century of the Common Era formulation, was compelled to
rely upon Greek thought-forms." Dr. Harold Bloom, The American
Religion
GEORGE MASON, FATHER OF THE U.S. BILL OF RIGHTS, 1787:
"...As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must
be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence
punishes national sins by national calamities
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin