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Essay: Bush, the Election and Terrorism by Barry Finnerty, 11-2004
Thoughts: "It is the duty of a patriot to defend his country against his government" - Unknown "If only closed minds came with closed mouths" - Unknown "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." - Dwight Eisenhower, 1961,3 days before leaving office "To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making." - Otto von Bismarck "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi "The great thing about America is that everyone is free to believe whatever they want to believe...no matter how STUPID!" - Barry Finnerty "Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident." - Walter Goodman, 1963 "When the economy is based upon a state of war, we are forever looking to sustain that economy by staying in a war." - Dwight Eisenhower (also from the "military-industrial complex" speech) "What luck for the rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you." - Oscar Wilde "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr. "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve" - George Bernard Shaw "America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." -Bobcat Goldthwaite "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." - Mao Tse-Tung "A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time." - Alfred E. Wiggam "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top." - Unknown "War is not the answer - only love can conquer hate." - Marvin Gaye (What's Going On) "The road to heaven is not paved with dead bodies." - Clarita Zarate "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." - Martin Luther King Jr. "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." - Robert Frost "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward" - Franklin D. Roosevelt "Justice is incidental to law and order." - J. Edgar Hoover "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." - Thomas Jefferson "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer." - Henry Kissinger "The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tsu "Religion is the enemy of enlightenment." - Barry Finnerty "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." - H. H. Munro "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." - Napoleon "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." - I. F. Stone "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." - Henry David Thoreau "When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship." - Harry S. Truman "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." - Mark Twain "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire "Trust in those who seek the truth. Beware of those who have found it." - Andre Gide "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg "A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist." - Unknown "A conservative is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday." - Unknown "When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny." - Unknown "Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all." - Unknown "If I had some ham, I could have some ham and eggs...if I had some eggs." - David Cogan (Barry's grandfather) |
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