Thanks!What is your favorite quote by a political leader, or political figure that you admire?
If by ';Liberal'; they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of ';Liberal.'; But if by a ';Liberal'; they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ';Liberal,'; then I'm proud to say I'm a ';Liberal.';
President John Fitzgerald KennedyWhat is your favorite quote by a political leader, or political figure that you admire?
Whoever worships the accomplished fact is incapable of preparing the future.
-Leon Trotsky
This is one of my favorite quotes because so many people only think about the past while trying to apply those thoughts to the future. Trotsky states very well that if you worship your past accomplishments, you will not be able to move forward, change and adapt to new situations, or bring about any real new advances.
If by a ';Liberal'; they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people 鈥?their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties 鈥?someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ';Liberal,'; then I'm proud to say I'm a ';Liberal.';
~ (John F. Kennedy)
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France
Necessity knows no law, and the starving man has a natural right to a share of his neighbor's bread... Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
- Emma Goldman
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids. Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
- Anna Louise Strong
If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses -- you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
- Eugene Debs
'Treason doth never prosper- for when it does none dare call it treason' - and can be applied to the Patriot Act USA as much as to the British anti-terrorism laws.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely -Lord Acton
There is nothing secret or hidden that cannot bear public scrutiny - Lord Acton
All that is necessary for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.
Sorry did notlook these up - but hoped they are remembered well - just check for absolute word order.
';Go ahead and eat your burger, Sweetheart, Yum!';
John Gummer, British Minister of Agriculture pretending to feed a hamburger to his four year old daughter Cordelia for the TV cameras during the Mad Cow outbreak in 1989.
The burger was actually bitten into by a civil servant.
Thanks Dad
';I receive and I give-such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination.';
- Mikhail Bakunin
';I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.';
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln (master fooler)
';If we don't disassemble the Pentagon now, we will live in constant war fare for the next century. The base for the Pentagon is expansion, not protection '; - Eisenhower in a speech to congress 1953 -
Government, at it's best, is a necessary evil. At it's worst, an intolerant one.'; -- Thomas Paine..
Because it is as true today as it was when he said it..
';The Buck Stops Here'; Harry S. Truman. Because I would just once like to see Bush take any responsibility for the horrendous mistakes he and his gang have lain on this country.
LBJ - ';When you have them by the ++++s, their hearts and minds will follow.';
My favorite because it is just so true of how things get done.
';I actually voted for it....before I voted against it..';
Sen. J-yawn Forbes Kerry
';Give me liberty, or give me death.'; Patrick Henry. Freedom is the only that makes life worth living.
Walk softly and carry a big stick - Teddy Roosevelt.
The one from Reagan about bombing Russia. That was pretty funny.
I have many...depending on my mood......currently.....it would have to be ';If you're going through Hell.......keep going';....Winston Churchill
Mr. Gorbachev.........tear down this wall. Ron Reagan at his best!
Sandra Day O'Connor - first woman on the Supreme Court.
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