Posted here for 12-25-06.
"Merry Christmas!"
-- Fred Gielow
Posted here for 12-18-06.
"The nation that will kill its child in the womb of its mother has lost its soul."
-- Mother Teresa.
Source: A Deficit of Decency, by Zell Miller, 2005, page 190. Published by Stroud & Hall Publishers, PO Box 27210, Macon, Georgia 31221. Website.
Posted here for 12-11-06.
"The American Republic was bound -- is still bound -- to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
-- Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society.
Source: "What They Said," Middle America News, November 2006, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 11-20-06.
"What set America apart from other lands was freedom for the individual -- freedom to work, to produce, to succeed, and especially to keep the fruits of one's labors. [. . .] America became great precisely because the stifling effect of too much government had been prevented."
-- John F. McManus, president of the John Birch Society.
Source: "Back to Basics," by Dennis Behreandt, The New American, May 15, 2006, page 32. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 11-13-06.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
-- Plato.
Source: "What They Said," Middle America News, November 2006, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 11-6-06.
"I believe that forgiving them [the terrorists of 9/11] is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting."
-- Retired General Norman Schwartzkopf.
Source: "QuickQuotes," compiled by John F. McManus, The New American, October 30, 2006, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 10-30-06.
"We must make clear that the only reason we have our freedom is because government is so inefficient. If the government were efficient in spending the approximately 40 percent of our income that it currently manages, we would enjoy less freedom than we do today."
-- Milton Friedman.
Source: "Free to Choose: A Conversation with Milton Friedman," Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, July 2006, page 5. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.
Posted here for 10-23-06.
"If the objective and subjective circumstances materialize, and there are soldiers, weapons, and money -- even if this means using biological, chemical and bacterial weapons -- we will conquer the world, so that 'There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah' will be triumphant over the domes of Moscow, Washington, and Paris."
-- Iraqi Shiite Ayatollah Ahmad al-Baghdadi in remarks made earlier this year and recorded by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Source: "Sayings of Ayatollah Ahmad al-Baghdadi," Human Events, October 16, 2006, page 5. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
Posted here for 10-16-06.
"Be forewarned that ADD is not a real disease, but rather a contrived illusion of a disease, a marketplace tool... ."
-- Fred Baughman, MD, in an article titled "Immunize Your Child Against Attention Deficit Disorder." The doctor has been a pediatric neurologist (a brain and nerve doctor) for 38 years. In nine years of research, he has not been able to find any evidence that ADD or ADHD are real diseases.
Source: "Should Your Child Take an Antidepressant?" by Lisa Fine, The DeWeese Report, March 2001, page 11, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 10-9-06.
"Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy."
-- Oriana Fallaci, famed Italian journalist. She faces jail in Italy for attacking Islam verbally. Yes, freedom of speech does not exist in many countries.
Source: "Famed Italian Journalist Angry over Muslim Hordes in Europe," Snapshots, compiled by John F. McManus, The New American, August 8, 2005, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 10-2-06.
"God cannot alter the past, but historians can."
-- Samuel Butler, English novelist.
Source: The Courage to Be Free, by Charlton Heston, 2000, page 53. Published by Saudade Press. Phone: 800-697-8844. Website.
Posted here for 9-25-06.
"I operate on the assumption the mass media will never be accurate."
-- Michael Crichton.
Source: During a talk 1-28-05 aired on C-SPAN2 2-12-05.
Posted here for 9-18-06.
"[T]here is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
-- Richard S. Lindzen, M.I.T. Atmosphere Science professor who claims there is 'no consensus' on global warming. The professor rejects the view that global warming is creating a 'planetary emergency.'
Source: "QuickQuotes," The New American, August 7, 2006, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 9-11-06.
"What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture."
-- Thomas Sowell.
Source: "What They Said," Middle America News, September 2006, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 9-4-06.
"[T]he whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety), by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken.
Source: Solicitation letter from Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, president, American Council on Science and Health, 1995 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10023-5860. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 8-28-06.
"Bush meant what he said at Waco, Texas, in March 2005, when he announced his plan to convert the United States into a 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America' by erasing our borders with Canada and Mexico. Bush's guest-worker proposal would turn the United States into a boardinghouse for the world's poor, enable employers to import an unlimited number of 'willing workers' at foreign wage levels, and wipe out what's left of the U.S. middle class."
-- Phyllis Schlafly.
Source: "U.S.-Mexico Merger Opposition Intensifies," by Joseph Farah, eco-logic Powerhouse, August 2006, page 11. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 8-21-06.
"I've always thought that the common sense and wisdom of government were summed up in a sign they used to have hanging on that gigantic Hoover Dam. It said, Government Property. Do Not Remove."
-- Ronald Reagan, 1987.
Source: "2007 Calendar" prepared by the Reagan Ranch, 217 State Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, page: June. Phone: 888-USA-1776. Website.
Posted here for 8-14-06.
"Oil has been a blessing from one point of view, but a curse from another. Almost every country in the Middle East that is rich in oil is a despotism. [Why?] One reason, and one reason only -- the oil is owned by the governments in question. If that oil were privately owned and thus someone's private property, the political outcome would be freedom rather than tyranny."
-- Milton Friedman.
Source: "Free to Choose: A Conservation with Milton Friedman," Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, July 2006, page 2. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.
Posted here for 8-7-06.
"I believe in the sanctity of marriage and I feel that God and nature intended it to be between a male and a female."
-- Naomi Judd, country music singer.
Source: "The Unshakable Beliefs of Naomi Judd," by Peter Davidson, NewsMax.com (the magazine), August 2006, page 84. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
Posted here for 7-31-06.
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
-- James Madison.
Source: "What They Said," Middle America News, July 2006, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 7-24-06.
"Calling these people 'undocumented workers' is like calling bank robbers 'informal withdrawal' agents."
-- William and Mary College professor George Grayson, during a discussion of categorizations of illegal immigrants.
Source: "QuickQuotes," The New American, June 26, 2006, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 7-17-06.
"I am a Christian, that is to say a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator, and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also."
-- Thomas Jefferson's words penned in the front of his Bible.
Source: In a solicitation letter from Pat Robertson, president and chancellor, Regent University. Address: 1000 Regent University Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464-9800.
Posted here for 6-26-06.
"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
-- George Washington in his farewell address to the nation.
Source: In a solicitation letter from Pat Robertson, president and chancellor, Regent University. Address: 1000 Regent University Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464-9800.
Posted here for 6-19-06.
"What would Scooby Doo?"
-- Seen on a bumper sticker.
SCOOBY-DOO and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Hanna-Barbera.
Posted here for 6-12-06.
"Democracy is the most vile form of government. . . democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." [That's why we have a republic.]
-- James Madison.
Source: "What They Said," Middle America News, February 2006, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 6-5-06.
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares, will plow for those who still have swords."
-- Author not known.
Source: From an e-mail received 5-11-06. Thanks, Michael.
Posted here for 5-29-06.
"[I believe] man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
-- Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. [I agree with the senator.]
Source: "Man Has Not Caused GLobal Warming" QuickQuotes, The New American, May 29, 2006, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 5-22-06.
"You're never a suicide bomber if you're an atheist, because there's no place to go."
-- Newt Gingrich, during a talk 4-29-06 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Source: C-SPAN, May 14, 2006.
Posted here for 5-15-06.
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
-- W. Somerset Maugham, Strictly Personal, 1941.
Source: "Snapshots," The New American, June 27, 2005, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 5-8-06.
"For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase."
-- Bob Carter of James Cook University in Australia, writing in the Daily Telegraph.
Source: "A Climate of Uncertainty," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 24-30, 2006, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 5-1-06.
"Private property and freedom are inseparable."
-- George Washington.
Source: "Creating Crisis, Shortage, and a Police State," by Freedom21 Santa Cruz, eco-logic Powerhouse, February 2006, page 16. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 4-24-06.
"The socialist idea sounded altruistic to those who began it, and it sounds altruistic to the naive who believe in it today. In practice, however, it creates self-centered individuals and a narcissistic society. So while it may have begun as a way to help others, it has come to mean a way of evading responsibility for oneself and for others."
-- Dennis Prager.
Source: "Socialism Makes People Less Noble," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 27 - April 2, 2006, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 4-17-06.
"[W]hile a humanist finds fault with Christianity, he has nothing to offer as a superior moral value system. [Humanists] have no moral value system other than the one each man makes up for himself which, in the end, comes down to being a matter of personal opinion."
-- Tim Wildmon.
Source: "Sin, Hypocrisy, Confusion . . . See, I Told You the Bible Was True," by Tim Wildmon, American Family Association Journal, April 2006, page 23. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.
Posted here for 4-10-06.
"[W]hen one's life is not balanced by gratitude for one's blessings, the joy of personal relationships, the honor of duty and obligation to others, it's easy to get burned out and lose your drive, your zest for life, your self-confidence [. . .]"
-- Dr. Laura.
Source: "Get Your 'Mogo' Back -- Five Ways to Feel Good about Yourself Again," by Dr. Laura, NewsMax.com (the magazine), April 2006, page 86. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
Posted here for 4-3-06.
"Just look at France. Only a religion can stand up to another religion. Christianity could have defended France, but secularism pushed Christianity into retreat. Now, Islamic fundamentalism has its way because there is nobody with moral fervor to resist. Secularism promotes cowardice, not courage, and that is bad for everyone."
-- Rabbi Daniel Lapin.
Source: "'Merry Christmas' Is Not Offensive," by Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 33. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
Posted here for 3-27-06.
"[M]ake no mistake, the 'gay rights' agenda, which includes indoctrinating kindergartners with pro-homosexual propaganda and legalizing same-sex marriage, is extraordinarily subversive to America's foundational values and institutions."
-- David Kupelian.
Source: "How 'Gay Rights' Is Being Sold to America," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 16. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
Posted here for 3-20-06.
"Make no mistake about this: The American news media are doing everything in their considerable power to undermine the U.S. war effort in Iraq. Nearly every day the headlines and stories are painted in the gloomiest of hues to help the media push their agenda against a military response to terrorism. They see their coverage of the war as their means to destroy the Bush Administration. . . . The liberal media clearly want America to lose. They also want the Iraqis to lose. And they want conservatives to lose."
-- L. Brent Bozell, founder and president, Media Research Center.
Source: "TV's Never-Ending Bad News Brigade," by Brent Bozell, News Flash, November 2005, page 1. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3580. Phone: 703-683-9733 or 800-672-1423. Website.
Posted here for 3-13-06.
"Roe v. Wade only legalizes abortion in the first trimester, and yet no one follows that ruling."
-- Tammy Bruce, lesbian, former head of the Los Angeles NOW chapter, pro-choice advocate, gun-owner, death penalty advocate, ex-leftist, and prolific author.
Source: "Bruce Carries the Torch of 'The New American Revolution'," by James Hirsen, NewsMax.com (the magazine), December 2005, page 87. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
Posted here for 3-6-06.
"It's a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice cream and a quart of dog mess and mix 'em together, the result will taste more like dog mess than ice cream. That's the problem with the UN. If you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn't that they'll meet each other halfway but that the free world winds up going three-quarters or seven-eighths of the way. Indeed, the UN has met the thug states so much more than half way that they now largely share the dictators' view of their peoples -- as either helpless children who need every decision made for them, or a bunch of dupes whose national wealth can be rerouted to a Swiss bank account."
-- Mark Steyn
Source: "America and the United Nations," by Mark Steyn, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, February 2006, page 6. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.
Posted here for 2-27-06.
"Society has always regarded marital love as a sacred expression of the bond between a man and a woman. It is the means by which families are created and society itself is extended into the future. In the Judeo-Christian tradition it is the means by which husband and wife participate with God in the creation of a new human life. It is for these reasons, among others, that our society has always sought to protect this unique relationship. In part the erosion of these values has given way to a celebration of forms of expression most reject. We will resist the efforts of some to obtain government endorsement of homosexuality."
-- Ronald Reagan
Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), by Ann Coulter, 2004, pages 167-168. Published by Crown Forum, New York, New York. Website.
Posted here for 2-20-06.
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
-- Mao Tse-Tung.
Source: "What They Said," Middle America News, December 2005, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 2-13-06.
"When a Democrat politician stumps at a church, you see, it's 'minority outreach.' When a Republican politician stumps at a church, it's a theocratic outrage."
-- Michelle Malkin.
Source: "The 'D' Stands for Demagogue," by Michelle Malkin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 23-29, 2006, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 2-6-06.
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports."
-- George Washington, in his Farewell Address.
Source: "Abortion's Effect on America," by John F. McManus, The New American, January 23, 2006, page 44. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 1-30-06.
"Now is the time that men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe."
-- Daniel Webster.
Source: "The 1986 Amnesty All Over Again," by Representative J.D. Hayworth, FAIR Immigration Report, December 2005/January 2006, page 6. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website..
Posted here for 1-23-06.
"I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than when I was president."
-- Jimmy Carter [the statement is true, in spite of the fact Carter is a terrible ex-president.]
Source: The American Sentinel, December 2005, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
Posted here for 1-16-06.
"[I]n many ways, homosexuality is a danger to the entire social system in Western civilization."
-- Mae West
Source: Michael Arditti, writing on "Mae West," October 28, 2005 in the London Independent, as quoted in "Mae Remembered," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 14-20, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
Posted here for 1-9-06.
"The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please."
-- Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819.
Source: "Amazing Facts & Quotes," compiled by Gail Brooks, Carrie Depaoli, and Barbara Wies, Range Magazine, Summer 2005, page 12. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website.
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