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| Posted by: Patch 01-Dec-2010, 12:12 PM |
| "States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct." --Alexander Hamilton Quite appropriate at this point in time. Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 24-Dec-2010, 09:29 AM |
| "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 passed on ... or we will spend our sunset years telling our children's children what it was like in the United States when men were free." - Ronald Reagan Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 02-Feb-2011, 09:30 AM |
| "Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves." --Joseph Warren Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 02-Feb-2011, 09:36 AM |
| "Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy 'accommodation.' And they say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right." --Ronald Reagan Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 03-Feb-2011, 12:22 PM |
| "No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution." --Joseph Story Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 26-Feb-2011, 10:26 AM |
| "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." - John Marshall Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 28-Feb-2011, 11:32 AM |
| "Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness." --James Wilson Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 18-Mar-2011, 11:09 AM |
| lanning, forming, and arranging laws, deliberation is always becoming, and always useful." --James Wilson Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 21-Mar-2011, 09:58 AM |
| "It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace." --Joseph Story Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 23-Mar-2011, 01:09 PM |
| "[I]t need not be observed that there are pretended as well as just causes of war." --John Jay Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 30-Mar-2011, 10:58 AM |
| "The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." --American statesman and senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Patch 30-Mar-2011, 10:59 AM |
| "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." --French philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) Slàinte, Patch |