Things to Ponder It is not ours by inheritance;
Posted 11-01-2008 at 05:20 PM by jimkim
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance;it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and lost it, have never known it again." -- Ronald Reagan
"The attempt to make heaven on Earth invariably produces Hell" Karl Popper
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain
"The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted. It belongs to the brave." -- Ronald Reagan
"The land of the free will cease to be when it's no longer the home of the brave."-- Rick Gaber
"Patrick Henry did NOT say, 'Give me absolute safety or give me death.' " -- John Stossel, "20/20", ABC-TV, Aug. 3, 2001
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!" --Alexander Hamilton
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." -- Daniel Webster (1834)
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Get off your ass and at least try." -- Jimkim
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life." -- Teddy Roosevelt
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from
falling into error." -- U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds
"In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen." -- David Boaz
"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel." -- Ayn Rand
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free"-- Ronald Reagan
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato
"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" -- Alan Keyes
"Man will never appreciate all he has gained without first learning to appreciate all he might loose." -- jimkim
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The attempt to make heaven on Earth invariably produces Hell" Karl Popper
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain
"The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted. It belongs to the brave." -- Ronald Reagan
"The land of the free will cease to be when it's no longer the home of the brave."-- Rick Gaber
"Patrick Henry did NOT say, 'Give me absolute safety or give me death.' " -- John Stossel, "20/20", ABC-TV, Aug. 3, 2001
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!" --Alexander Hamilton
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." -- Daniel Webster (1834)
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Get off your ass and at least try." -- Jimkim
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life." -- Teddy Roosevelt
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from
falling into error." -- U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds
"In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen." -- David Boaz
"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel." -- Ayn Rand
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free"-- Ronald Reagan
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato
"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" -- Alan Keyes
"Man will never appreciate all he has gained without first learning to appreciate all he might loose." -- jimkim
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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