Quotes (December 28th)

“People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.” – Clive Staples Lewis, novelist and essayist (1898-1963)

“Son, when you grow up you will know who I really am. I am just a child like you who has been forced to act responsibly.” – Rod Byrnes

“Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past.” – Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618); English navigator and writer.

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” – Haile Selassie

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” – Spanish proverb

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.” – Harry S. Truman

“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.” – Alfred E. Neuman

“Tell him to go to hell” – Zachary Taylor (‘Old Rough and Ready’) (1784-1850) US General in the Mexican-American War and 12th 12th US President (1849-1850) 2nd to die in office. Quote reported to be shouted on this day in history 1847, when the Mexican General Santa Anna surrounded and outnumbered US forces at the Angostura Pass in Mexico (Battle of Buena Vista) and demands an immediate surrender. Taylor refused and early the next morning Santa Anna dispatched some 15,000 troops to move against the 5,000 Americans. The superior US artillery was able to halt one of the two advancing Mexican divisions. By the afternoon Taylor had lived up to his word as the Mexican troops began to withdraw.

“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“The inspectors have come to provide better circumstances and more precise information for a coming aggression. This is not an accusation, because the inspectors, from day one, their foremost work was spying. Their work was spying for the CIA and (Israel’s secret service) Mossad together.” – Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan, accusing U.N. arms inspectors of being U.S. and Israeli spies and helping Washington prepare for possible war on Baghdad, while at the same time promising to cooperate with the United Nations.

“The judgment is made that, as has been the long-standing practice of the federal government, with a one-time exception, that it is wise to treat all employees the same. No distinction should be made that would say to one group of employees that their work that results in significant improvements to the taxpayers should get a bonus, while another group of workers who work equally hard and do a job on behalf of the public should be denied similar financial incentives in the form of a bonus if they, too, do good work for the taxpayers.” – White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, indicating that the White House has reinstated a policy making about 2,000 political appointees across the federal government eligible for the same cash bonuses available to civil servants.

“I would like to get a lot more funding for Plan Colombia… I know that (Colombian President Alvaro Uribe) would like to see more resources to go to Colombia, and I will try to make that case before our Congress, but there are practical limitations on how much more additional funding might be available.” – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, indicating that he would recommend Washington grant more aid to help fund Colombia’s twin wars on drugs and “terrorists”.


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Profession: 28th President of the United States (D-1912-21, Nobel 1919)

“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”

“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”

“Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”

“America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.”

“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.”

“At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.”

“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

“By ‘radical,’ I understand one who goes too far; by ‘conservative,’ one who does not go far enough; by ‘reactionary,’ one who won’t go at all.”

“Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.”

“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”

“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”


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