Quotes for Veterans Day

“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. If nations were to go to war for every degree of injury, there would never be peace on earth.”
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed—those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone—it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a speech on April 16, 1953

"War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
-- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

"War is delightful to those who have not experienced it."
-- Erasmus

"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
-- George W. Bush, Newsweek, September 24, 2001

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quote of the Day

"[W]hat ever happened to turn the other cheek" and garbage like that. Guess what? That only works for so long and the time has come for us to stand up to what we know is evil and wrong. Bottom line is MAJORITY RULES and, well, I think you are sweating because we might just have a majority.
--Alice, Christian wife and mother

That's one Christian housewife who is mad as hell and she's not going to take it any more.

File under: Religion, Hypocrites

Quote du jour

Hey look! Morons! Children, gather round: we're seeing a moron's rare forays outside of its home turf. If we're very quiet, maybe they'll eat out of our hands!
-- jasmine

Quote du jour

What is the goal toward which we are heading? The peaceful enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice whose laws have been inscribed, not in marble and stone, but in the hearts of all men, even in that of the slave who forgets them and in that of the tyrant who denies them.
-- Robespierre, "On Political Morality", 5 February 1794

That is Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robspierre trying to justify "The Terror".

[W]e have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth. Across the generations we have proclaimed the imperative of self-government, because no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave. Advancing these ideals is the mission that created our Nation. It is the honorable achievement of our fathers. Now it is the urgent requirement of our nation's security, and the calling of our time.
George "Dubya" Bush, Second Inaugural Address

Hmmmmm...*scartches chin*

That is George Walker Bush trying to justify...

Quote of the Day

"That kid is soooo bleeping cute!"
-- Aunt Katie

Quote for today

"You are a citizen of a great and powerful nation. Are you not ashamed that you give so much time to the pursuit of money, and reputation, and honors, and care so little for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul?"
--Socrates, The Apology

Quote of the Day

"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved" -- John Ashcroft
(from his resignation letter)

More on political capital...

"My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade...if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."
-- George Dubya Bush to Mickey Herskowitz (ghost for writer Dubya Bush and Poppy Bush) in 1999

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and Ted Rall on the election: GUILTY, DISGUSTED, AMERICAN