Quotes of the Day

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily
"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it,derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."-- John Adams
(A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765)Reference: The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, Thompson,ed. (28)
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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."-- Thomas Paine
(The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)Reference: Paine, Collected Writings, Library of America p.91
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“The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.” —Elmer Davis
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“To begin something and be unable to stick with it to the finish is far more damaging to your reputation than if you’d never begun it in the first place. Nitwit Democrats think anything that can be passed off as a failure in Iraq will somehow diminish only Bush and the neocons. In reality—a concept with which Democrats seem only dimly acquainted—it would diminish the nation, and all but certainly end the American moment.” —Mark Steyn
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No amount of training, it seems, can immunize against the real threat to America: the possibility that somewhere, at some time, a TSA cop might pull an Arab or South Asian out of a line at an airport unfairly and talk to them for five minutes.” —Jonah Goldberg
“These are tough days for political satirists. Any satire about government boondoggles is soon upstaged by an actual government program that’s more inane than anything comedians could invent.” —John Stossel
“[I]f Bush sneered that John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi’s constant companion is the white flag, they’d huff about how dare he question their patriotism. But, if you can’t question their patriotism when they want to lose a war, when can you?” —Mark Steyn
“France backed off its pledge to send seventeen hundred troops to Lebanon Thursday and offered to send two hundred. No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they’re full of testosterone when they’re surrounded by Frenchmen.” —Argus Hamilton