Posted in Quotes on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
From John McCain - I could not agree more.
…liberty is a right conferred by our Creator, not by governments, and that the proper object of justice and the rule of law in our country is not to aggregate power to the state but to protect the liberty and property of its citizens.
Full speech in text [...]
Posted in Quotes on February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I do not reject peace, but I am afraid of war disguised as peace. Cicero 43 B.C.
I could not put it better myself.
One of the worst feature of war is that sometime we have to fight one to [...]
Posted in Quotes on January 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Posted in Quotes on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Stumbled on this one yesterday. Heh.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
Jack Handey
Posted in Quotes, War on January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Murrary commenting on Kiwiblog:
During the recent “we’re not terrorists, we just dress that way” march the mob stopped off in PN square to wave flags and abuse the locals.
As I was walking past the memorial one young camo wearing wannabe gangster told me it was time us whities gave him respect. I told him he’d [...]
Posted in Quotes on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sums up the education system of today nicely.
“In the schools I attended we were given neither condoms nor lunch. We were given a good education.”
Posted in Quotes on December 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Comment on Kiwiblog from Johnboy:
“The total membership of the New Zealand branch of the Exclusive Brethren Church turned up in Auckland today to protest against the Democracy Restoration Bill. Minister of Justice Annette King told our reporter, while flossing her teeth, that no undemocratic organisation would be allowed to hijack the democratic process in New [...]
Posted in Quotes on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a quote to ponder while thinking certain current issues.
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Posted in Quotes on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Saw this quote on my iGoogle, and thought it was a good reminder that W isn’t the first president to suffer under unending media bombardment.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read “President Can’t Swim”.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Posted in Quotes on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison
How true.
Posted in Iraq, Quotes on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
There are several things that have influenced my views over the years. One of the biggies is Alistair Cooke’s Letter From America.
You can read about that program here.
What really struck me about Mr Cooke was the fact that he consistently came up with information that you just didn’t hear anywhere else. He had a unique [...]
Posted in Quotes on September 8, 2007 | No Comments »
On my igoogle quote of the day today:
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- AA Milne
Heh, I have plenty of candidates in mind for the second-rate [...]
Posted in Quotes on July 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
Posted in Quotes on May 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
3 Guesses as to who said this:
Oh and I Yes I go to school, I have a part time job and I quite possibly could have a Girlfriend.
Posted in Quotes on April 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Matt McCarten reckons that we were only in Gallipoli cos the Americans Brits were after oil.
Trench warfare in France and Belgium is what most of the world remembers about World War I. The purpose of the war was which European countries would win global domination. The war was fought to get control of the collapsing [...]
Posted in Labour, National, Quotes on March 31, 2007 | No Comments »
From John Armstrong:
National’s polling is apparently registering a voter exodus from Labour of astonishing proportions - so astonishing National is querying whether its figures are right.
Can’t wait for the next public poll!
Posted in Quotes on March 9, 2007 | No Comments »
From Whaleoil’s:
Yeah, and I think I know why mention of “Hustle For Russell” is not made on any of the ’left’ blogs that you surveyed.
Its because ’right thinkers’ tend to view helping others as a personal decision to be made and acted upon by the individual, who has a moral duty to try to alleviate [...]
Posted in Quotes on February 28, 2007 | No Comments »
A quote from LGF, who seems to have attracted more than the usual hate recently due to their popularity on Digg:
For anyone who’s not aware LGF is an anti Semtic site posing as a pro Jewish site it tries to post as many stories as it can about Muslims just so people will get really [...]
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