Quotes of the Day

"Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be, that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another." —Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
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Hmmm, the moonbat left comes to mind, pure democracy is mob rule, that is why we are a federalist republic. Ed.
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INSIGHT
"Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals." —Niccolo Machiavelli
"The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy." —John Quincy Adams
"No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic." —H. L. Mencken
"If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law." —Sir Winston Churchill
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UPRIGHT
"State control is fundamentally bad because it denies people the power to choose and the opportunity to bear responsibility for their own actions. Conversely, privatization shrinks the power of the state and free enterprise enlarges the power of the people." —Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
"Hearing the world pass judgment on the Israel-Hizballah war as it unfolds is to live in an Orwellian moral universe. With a few significant exceptions (the leadership of the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and a very few others), the world—governments, the media, UN bureaucrats—has completely lost its moral bearings." —Charles Krauthammer
"Until the American and European publics have become convinced of the present danger to them, we will continue to stumble, take half measures and fail to adequately defend ourselves." —Tony Blankley
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(ed.) Think about Dennis Prager's article I posted about yesterday evening.
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From Left Field
DEZINFORMATSIA
This week's "Propagandum Magnum" Awards: "What this administration has done, is actually stolen something from people. Whether it's an African or a European or an Arab or Israeli, it's that idea of an optimistic America out there. People really need that idea, and the, the sort of dark nature of the Cheneys and the Bushes and the Rices, this...sort of relentless pessimism about the world, this exporting of fear, not hope, has really left people feeling that the idea of America has been stolen from them." —Tom Friedman ++
"President Bush has this annoying tendency of enlarging problems, thinking that makes him a bold and visionary leader. An ordinary ceasefire that stops people from killing each other isn't good enough for Bush and his diplomatic automaton, Condoleezza Rice, who sees the violence in Lebanon and Iraq as the 'birth pangs of a new Middle East'." —Newsweek's Eleanor Clift ++
"[T]his administration thrives on fear. Fear has been the text and the subtext of every Republican campaign since 9/11... Fear is actually more dangerous than war in the Middle East. For those who spin dizzily toward World War III, the Apocalypse, the Rapture—always with that delicious frisson of terror—the slow, patient negotiations needed to get it back under control are Not News." —Molly Ivins
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Courtesy of The Federalist Patriot, there is much to be found upun visiting.