“The campaign against terrorism will consume the next generation of Americans the way the cold war dominated the lives of their parents and grandparents. It will require an intensity of focus unmatched by any other challenge…. When your enemy wants to kill you, is not afraid to die himself, and actively looks forward to the prospect, then you have a daunting challenge.” ~ George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm “We are going after al Qaeda relentlessly wherever they are, and wherever we can find them, we put our teeth into their jugular.” ~ General David Petraeus “All existence is in disarray. Religious beliefs are no longer believed. Love is much discussed but little practiced. Morals are in confusion when they are in evidence at all.” ~ PJ O’Rourke, Modern Manners “Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” ~ John Adams, August 1770 “I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs.” ~ Ronald Reagan “They saw strong, resilient, self-reliant people; people whose character and spirit were reflected in their response to the crisis; people who were ready to share because they cared about their neighbors and their communities.” ~ Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina “As to methods there may be a million and them some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “We forget at our peril that the ambition of Islamic extremists is limited only by opportunity.” ~ Defense Secretary Robert Gates “What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.” ~ Howard Cosell “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.” ~ John Adams, 1780 “He who knows best knows how little he knows.” ~ Thomas Jefferson “Be wary of the man who urges action in which himself incurs no risk.” ~ Joaquin Setanti “Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.” ~ Ronald Reagan “Where liberty is, there is my country.” ~ Benjamin Franklin “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” Helen Keller “Facts are stubborn things, but staistics are more pliable.” ~ Mark Twain “Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.” ~ Benjamin Franklin “National honor is a national property of the highest value.” ~ James Monroe “I have never advocated war as except as a means to peace.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant “A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt “There is no such thing as a good tax.” ~ Winston Churchill “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” ~ George Washington “In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress.” ~ John Adams “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” ~ Samuel Adams, February 12, 1779 “Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.” ~ Howard Cosell “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” ~ Franklin Roosevelt “Pressure makes diamonds.” ~ General George Patton “Don’t wake a sleeping lion.” ~Chinese Proverb “A hair divides what is false and true.” ~ Omar Khayyam “Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.” ~ Cicero “Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.” ~ Suzanne Necker “Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.” ~ Dalton Camp “We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” ~ Stewart Udall “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism ~ George Washington “Be what you’re for. This matters — the principles upon which we try to govern. To deviate is to put at risk what our country needs.” ~ Haley Barbour quoting Ronald Reagan “Others determine your reputation. You determine your character.” ~ Bruce & Stan, God is In the Small Stuff
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