Fortune Quote #3139

There once was a [person] from [place] Who [insert more detail in this
space]; When [a theme for adults Goes in here] it results In a [rude, yet
still logical case]. -- Virge

Fortune Quote #3138

What is preached in the madrassas on the West Bank, in Pakistan, and
throughout the Gulf is no different from the Nazi doctrine of racial
hatred. What has changed, of course, is that unlike our grandfathers, we
have lost the courage to speak out against it. -- Victor Davis
Hanson

Fortune Quote #3137

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as
the will and moral courage of free men and women. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3136

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. -- Ronald
Reagan

Fortune Quote #3135

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it
stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3134

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have
learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. --
Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3133

I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything
that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the
middle of a Cabinet meeting. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3132

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So government
programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is
the nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth.
-- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3131

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a
nation gone under. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3130

Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one
end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3129

The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but
doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3128

I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked
like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress. -- Ronald
Reagan

Fortune Quote #3127

Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too
strong. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3126

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's
just that they know so much that isn't so. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3125

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the
government and I'm here to help. -- Ronald Reagan

Fortune Quote #3124

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. -- Ronald
Reagan

Fortune Quote #3123

Unfortunately, if you're doing big things, most of the time you're never
going to be around to see them [to fruition], whether it be cultural change
or spreading democracy in parts of the world where people just don't
believe it can happen. I understand that. I don't expect many short-term
historians to write nice things about me. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3122

The strength of the mastiff is not in the least supported either by the
swiftness of the greyhound, or by the sagacity of the spaniel. Among men,
on the contrary, the most dissimilar geniuses are of use to one
another. -- Adam Smith

Fortune Quote #3121

...in the long run the aggregate of decisions of individual businessmen,
exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken,
is less likely to do harm than the centralized decisions of a government;
and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. -- John
Cowperthwaite

Fortune Quote #3120

"Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly."

Fortune Quote #3119

"...the success of multilateralism is measured not merely by following a
process, but by achieving results." -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3118

[From the `when smart people say stupid things' department:] "We suspect
that the reforms being carried out in the Soviet Union and Hungary may be
evidence not of the terminal enfeeblement of Marxism but of a hitherto
unsuspected resiliency and adaptability, of something akin to Roosevelt's
New Deal, which revived and rejunevated an apparently moribund capitalism
in the years of Great Depression." -- Senator J. William Fulbright
and Seth Tillman, April 1989.

Fortune Quote #3117

A country that does not respect the rights of its own people will not
respect the rights of its neighbors. -- Andrei Sakharov

Fortune Quote #3116

[From the `when smart people say stupid things' department:] "...don't try
to be too rational about these things. The moment you see people
suffering, you should feel solidarity with them and try to help them
without thinking too much about the reasons." -- former President
Jimmy Carter (quoted in "The Case for Democracy" by Natan
Sharansky)

Fortune Quote #3115

It is the snobbishness of the young to suppose that a theorem is trivial
because the proof is trivial. -- Henry Whitehead

Fortune Quote #3114

"The longer I've been here, the better I've liked the seniority
system." -- Senator Thad Cochran

Fortune Quote #3113

...he can longer distinguish between our friends and our enemies, and so
he has ended by adopting our enemies' view of the world. -- Daniel
Patrick Moynihan

Fortune Quote #3112

In 1821 Chief Justice John Jay said to his nephew William Heathcote
DeLancey: "Let me tell you, William: the *true* history of the American
Revolution can *never* be written." Jay declined to give his reasons,
saying, "You must be content to know that the fact is as I have said, and
that a great many people in those days were not at all what they seemed nor
what they are generally believed to have been." -- Edward Floyd
DeLancey's introduction to Thomas Jones' "History of New York
During the Revolutionary War", 1879