Posted by
CKHustler on Friday, May 02, 2008 6:59:11 PM
Ive went through a couple hundred quotes finding ones that apply to what we are going through today. Our economy, regulations, Foreign affairs, etc etc. They are as conservative as ever! I have tried splitting them up by who made the quote and not by topic. This way I can make a brand new opinion on a quote in which was similar to one 3 parts back haha. Have fun with this! BTW, if anyone wants to find some quotes, I used
Founding Father Quotes
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of USA.
This is my favorite quote of all-time. So why not do it first? This basically goes against all the liberals are. They are essentially anti-religious people. Just take a look at what the ACLU has accomplished! Morals are also relative for them. I read Hal and others on here everyday saying just that. The ends justify the means and everything goes. This also shows why our government is starting to flounder so to say. The constituents are no longer a moral or religious people and are electing as such. Our representatives are acting as such in office and that is causing many problems.
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke 1729-1797
This one applies more to foreign affairs than anything today, though it applies to the average conservative as well. First domestically: The average joe has to get out and educate themselves to vote this election. Most every issue that was voted on in 2004 and 2006 was voted on conservatively. Why is that? Though they believe in conservative values, people are being brainwashed into thinking liberals will do what they say. Liberals are all talk, just look at universal healthcare...sure it sounds good until the IRS comes to take a little extra for your lazy neighbor to get healthcare. The average person must educate themselves this election and start voting for the people that will ACTUALLY move this country in the right direction. Foreign: Liberals are up to letting Iran do what they want along with leaving Iraq, Ignoring North Korea etc etc. We must act now before the terrorists gain enough power to create WW3. Iran will not stop producing nuclear weapons and North Korea knows we are weak politically. We must make a stand!
"...There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing." - Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837
Well, the media does do a good job scrutinizing our politicians. They must do it unbiased way to get the full truth out to the people. This quote in a way goes back to the previous quote. People are voting for a person because they have Charisma or are good at speaking. I worry more about what was said! College students are out in droves voting for Obama and they have no clue why! Voters are not educating themselves and simply vote for what feels good much of the time. I would put that under the negligence mentioned above.
I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Patrick Henry, speech in the First Continental Congress, September 6, 1774
I am putting this one in here for all the hyphenated Americans. At that time in history people were more proud of their state than their nation. People now are more proud of being an African-American, or Asian-American or Indian-American than being an American. I have decided personally to not call anyone by a hyphenated name unless they were born there. People must be firstly proud to be an American.
There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!
John Hancock, upon signing the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
I just had to throw this one in. This shows how the founding fathers sacrificed for this country. Most all of them were very wealthy people. George Washington (with modified scaling of the dollar) was the richest president we have had. He could have quelled the public outcry and lived out his life in peace, but he wanted the best for this country! Our politicians are not of that type anymore. They will do anything to stay in power no matter how it hurts the average American.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." Alexander Tyler (A Scottish professor) 1897
I have posted this up in another thread. It is amazing how accurate this is accounting for us. faith to being with...courage during the late to mid 1800s...liberty after the civil war building up...abundance of the 20's...selfish 60's....to the apathy of now and moving to dependence on the government with the current presidential candidates. We are not a straight democracy, but it does apply to our country.
If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
This describes the liberals of today perfectly. They are always finding a new way to take our money (for the children right?). Our government has become a greedy government of which the founding fathers were decisively against. They gave the federal government very few powers for that exact reason. The government is always punishing "big business" saying its for the little person. Our country's industry only became the worlds most powerful during WW2 because of big business. Our regulations on the big businesses are forcing them to leave to make a profit and many of them have moved to Asia. This will only continue until our government removes internal regulations on US businesses. As they leave it removes the jobs for Americans. So while what is left they may make slightly more, many more Americans make much less or are out of work because of the laws. Big businesses that do stay will always pass the cost onto the consumer. Raising say the minimum wage will only make costs go up and the person making the new minimum wage will be able to buy nothing more, while the person making say $10 will be able to buy less.
For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.
George Washington, comment to General Henry Knox, March 1789
This is why he was such a great leader. He didn't crave for power but had power forced upon him. He had the interests of the people and not his personally gain at heart. It is too bad we cannot have people of this character in office now because to get into office you must want to be there. If only...
If we desire to insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington, Annual Message, December 1793
This is why we must be able to act towards all terrorist country's with the utmost vigor. If they know we will come after them for messing with us, they will not threaten us or our people. They know their will be consequences for their actions. As of today they know if they just hinder us enough our media will destroy us politically and then they have won. We need a sense of American political strength around the world putting fear in the hearts of the enemy.
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
George Washington, letter to Pierre Auguste Adet, January 1, 1796
This, was just a good quote I wanted to throw in.
I hope to be able to put up another this weekend, if not it will probably be next weekend before I get part 2 up.